Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• One Killed in Lincoln, Nebraska Train Crash

  Brett Emison | November 19, 2009 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  NBC affiliate, WOWT has reported that one person was killed when an Amtrak train struck a car at a railroad crossing on the west side of Lincoln, Nebraska. Police say one person was killed when...

• Outrage Over Anna School Bus Crash

  Jeff Rasansky | November 20, 2008 10:05 AM | 5 CommentsDallas, TX

  Parents were outraged after 16 students were injured in an Anna school bus crash that occurred around 4 p.m. yesterday. Superintendent Dr. Joe Wardell says that the district never received...

• Three People Injured After Virginia Beach Plane Crashes in South Carolina

  Jim Lewis | November 10, 2009 9:59 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A multi-engine Beechcraft B200 King Air airplane crashed before arriving at the runway of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in South Carolina (SC). Three people were injured including...

• Car/Bus Accident In Rochester

  Mike Bryant | November 19, 2009 8:08 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Wednesday night, there was a car/ school bus collision in Rochester. On the school bus were 22 students from Wabasha-Kellogg school district which collided with a U-turning vehicle. Eight students...

• High-Speed Rail Plan Moves Forward for Southside Virginia (VA)

  John Cooper | November 10, 2009 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Taking cars off Hampton Roads highways is the surest way to reduce traffic congestion, increase driver safety and ensure that economic growth in the area extending from Suffolk to Williamsburg...

• Railroad Diesel Exhaust Fume Disease & Pollution: Interview with Dr. Dick Van Steenis, British Authority on Diesel Pollution

  Rick Shapiro | April 18, 2008 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Diesel exhaust fumes health and safety issues have been pushed to the forefront of health news by passage of new U.S. governmental regulations pertaining to railroad locomotive engines and other...

• Man Killed in Southeast Missouri Train Accident

  Brett Emison | November 17, 2009 10:38 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  The Southeast Missourian has reported that Scotty Davis was killed in a railroad crossing accident near Campbell, Missouri. CAMPBELL, Mo. -- A 44-year-old Campbell man was killed when his vehicle...

• Pastor, Wife Killed In Louisiana Train Accident

  Brett Emison | November 23, 2009 10:07 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  WAFB has reported that Pastor Fanley Thomas and his wife, Florence, were killed at a railroad crossing in Le Moyen, Louisiana on Sunday morning on their way to church. LE MOYEN, LA (WAFB) - A St....

• Warren Buffett Buys Burlington Northern Sante Fe ("BNSF") Railroad

  Brett Emison | November 03, 2009 12:24 PM | 4 CommentsKansas City, MO

  CNN has reported that Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, will buy railroad corporation Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF) for $44 billion. Berkshire (BRKA, Fortune 500), which already...

• The Deadliest accident in Metro history

  Doug Landau | June 22, 2009 10:00 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  One onlooker described the scene as a mangled roller coaster, equating the deadliest crash in the history of the DC transit system to a smashed amusement park ride. The Washington Metropolitan...