Earlier today, the web site for Houston television station KHOU reported a runaway train traveling through that city’s downtown area. Here’s their report: RUNAWAY TRAIN TRAVELS THROUGH DOWNTOWN HOUSTON HOUSTON — Officials are trying to find out what went wrong after a Union Pacific train started moving Sunday morning with no one at the controls….
Back in 2002, a Union Pacific coal train near Sharon Springs, Kansas, stopped when a journal bearing went bad causing the car near the middle of the train to derail. The crew stopped the train and walked a half mile or so back to assess the problem. As bad luck would have it, the derailed…
Having traveled by train a great deal over the past couple of decades, it distresses me to read criticisms of Amtrak by newspaper and magazine columnists that are based on ideology or misinformation. Some of these people get their shorts in a knot because Amtrak operates in the red and receives some government subsidy. Of…
Matt Hannes photo News reports don’t always – no, make that almost never – tell the whole story. Case in point is the story of a difficult run made by Amtrak’s California Zephyr which operates daily in both directions between Chicago and the Bay Area. Two of the Zephyr consists encountered some pretty ferocious weather…