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Buffett's BNSF helped lead fight to delay train safety technology
2015-11-04 14:44:44| Railroads - Topix.net
When an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia in May, killing eight people and injuring scores more, the railroad industry's campaign to delay a Dec. 31 deadline to install technology to prevent such disasters appeared to be finished. Not, as it turned out, if billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, had anything to do with it.
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Mitsubishi delivers first six-car AGT train for shuttle service in Japan
2015-11-03 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has delivered the first of the three six-car automated guideway transit (AGT) trains to Saitama New Urban Transit.
Wine and Garbage? NYC Trash Train Plan Draws Upstate Protest
2015-11-02 15:13:00| Waste Age
The Associated Press Local residents and businesses who oppose the landfill see the rail proposal as a way to extend the life of the facility past its current permit date of 2023. But it's not clear how they can stop the New York City contract. read more
Siemens completes first Class 707 Desiro City train body shell
2015-11-02 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Siemens has begun the construction of the first Class 707 Desiro City trains, built for South West Trains (SWT) in the UK.
Four killed in train blast in Balochistan, Pakistan
2015-11-02 01:00:00| Railway Technology
At least four people died and 12 were injured when a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) blast struck the Jaffar Express train in the Dasht area of Balochistan, south-west Pakistan.
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