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Officials investigating last week's crash of two Metro subway trains said a system used to detect trains in the area of the accident had failed intermittently in the days immediately before the fatal crash.
Stung by Gov. Jim Doyle's veto of a potential Milwaukee sales tax increase to fund transit programs, members of the Legislature's budget-writing committee on Tuesday killed a study of a commuter rail plan for southeastern Wisconsin.
A train-stopping system is nearly ready to supplement traffic signals that warn if the track ahead isn't clear.
The death toll climbed to 15 on Wednesday in western Italy after a cargo train loaded with liquefied petroleum caused an explosion, civil protection agency officials said, warning more victims could be found.
Private investors affiliated with Value Recovery Group, Inc. (VRG) of Columbus, OH, have acquired the Colorado Railcar DMU and will resume manufacturing this modern domestically produced passenger train in a new manufacturing facility to be established later this year pending state/local incentives and final round investments.
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