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BNSF

RailAmerica Acquires Alabama Rail Line from BNSF

July 17, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company has sold and leased 288 miles of track in and around Mobile, Ala., to RailAmerica’s wholly-owned subsidiary, the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway for about $15 million.

Miscellaneous

The Conrail Saga

July 17, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
Conrail, as a railroad company, began operations in April 1976, although its lineage can be traced to the earliest days of railroads in North America.

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Canadian Pacific

CPR Acquiring 600 High-Capacity Freight Cars For Lumber Shippers

July 17, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
Canadian Pacific Railway will acquire 600 high-capacity freight cars for lumber products shippers by mid-July, swelling its fleet for North America’s robust and service-sensitive lumber market by close to 30 per cent.

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Union Pacific

Union Pacific Railroad Museum Officially Opens in Council Bluffs, Iowa

July 17, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
Union Pacific Chairman Dick Davidson, along with federal, state and local elected officials, on May 10 officially opened the Union Pacific Railroad Museum at the historic Council Bluffs Carnegie Library.

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Union Pacific

Emergency Responders Complete UP-Sponsored Safety Course

July 17, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
Twenty-five emergency response personnel from across the western two-thirds of the nation have completed a tank car safety course sponsored by Union Pacific Railroad.

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Local Service on the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

July 17, 2003 Todd DeFeo
The following pictures were taken on June 14, 2003, at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. (All pictures by Todd DeFeo, (c) 2003 Railfanning.org)

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An excursion on the Hardin Southern Railroad

July 17, 2003 Todd DeFeo
The following pictures were taken on June 28, 2003, at the Hardin Southern Railroad Museum. (All pictures by Todd DeFeo, (c) 2003 Railfanning.org)

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CSX

CSX Transportation Launches Track Maintenance Blitz

July 8, 2003 Railfanning.org News Wire
During a nine-day blitz, CSX suspended operations on a key rail line from Elkhorn City, Ky., to Laurens, S.C., while hundreds of railroad employees performed track upgrades, highway-rail crossing improvements and bridge and tunnel repairs.

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Amtrak No. 40: Time for a Paintjob?

July 1, 2003 Todd DeFeo
On a recent jaunt to Washington, D.C., on Amtrak’s Crescent, I noticed something on the train’s lead Genesis unit.

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