'GAO Cites Progress in Railroad Oversight (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Federal railroad officials have made progress toward identifying the most dangerous parts of the nation's rail system in the wake of several accidents, but more work needs to be done to evaluate the effectiveness of that effort, the investigative arm of Congress said Friday.
'Railroad backers hope for the best (The Longview News-Journal) JACKSONVILLE ? Some want the Texas State Railroad to remain state property. Others want to take a chance and give privatization a try. And many don't care one way or the other ? they just want the steam engines to keep running.
'A railroad memory (Freeport Journal) FREEPORT - A symbol of simpler times, the Rock Island Railroad never stopped in Savanna or at the expansive army depot just north of it. But that doesn't matter to railroad man Jack Carson - the railroad is in his blood.