48 hours aboard Amtrak’s new direct train from Chicago to Miami
The Sun-Times sent a reporter and photographer on the first run of the Floridian from Chicago to Miami — on one condition. We ...
American Freight closing, shuts all 15 California furniture stores
Liquidator Hilco Consumer-Retail announced the shuttering of 328 locations nationwide and the start of store-closing sales.
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California State Railroad Museum
Situated at the northern edge of Old Sacramento, the California State ... Sacramento Southern Railroad train, which departs from the Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot in Old Sacramento ...
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Retailer American Freight to close: See which California stores will shutter
All 15 of California's American Freight furniture stores will close due to its parent company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company announced earlier this week. California isn't the ...
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West Michigan freight rail line lands $16.4M from feds for operational upgrades
A West Michigan freight rail line has landed $16.4 million in federal funding for improvements that aim to enhance safety, ...
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freight railroad strike
Senate votes to avert freight rail strike amid economic concern Legislation to avert a freight rail strike in the United States is headed to President Joe Biden's desk. A bill to avoid the strike ...
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U.S.-bound migrants say the election doesn’t matter: ‘You’re going to suffer whoever is president’
HUEHUETOCA, Mexico — In a forlorn stretch of high desert outside Mexico City, a dozen migrants trudged along beside a set of railroad tracks, hoping to jump on a freight train that would take ...
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American Freight is closing discount stores across California. See where and what’s on sale
American Freight Appliances and Furniture is closing stores across the United States. ArtMarie Getty Images A national retail chain specializing in discount furniture and home appliances is ...
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One person hospitalized after freight train hits SUV in Leominster, Massachusetts
A person is hospitalized after a freight train hit a SUV in Leominster on Thursday.Just before 7 p.m. on Thursday, a CSX freight train collided with a SUV on the track at Marguerite Avenue in ...
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2 charged with stealing TVs, other electronics from freight train on Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two men were charged Saturday night in connection with the theft of TVs and other electronics from a railroad shipping container on the West Side during a brazen daylight theft.
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Front Range passenger rail: Colorado gets $66 million to expand railways, boost freight safety
Colorado has received a federal infusion of $66.4 million in transportation funds to boost freight train safety and enable expansion along rail corridors northwest of Denver, setting up ...
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Ohioans can weigh in on passenger rail, freight train safety via statewide survey
Survey questions are open-ended and cover topics including passenger rail, trains in communities and freight transportation. “Rail means a lot of different things to a lot of different people ...