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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad announces $199M project plan in Amarillo
LubbockOnline.com
The federal mandate came after a serious train accident in California several years ago in which a train missed a signal, he said. Positive train control upgrades are ongoing across the Texas Panhandle this year, with the focus being on tracks from ...

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Train destroys semi in Long View wreck
Hickory Daily Record
A tractor-trailer got stuck on the train tracks and a train collided with it early Monday morning. No one was injured. Credit: Jeremy Detter/RECORD PHOTO Crews examine a train accident in Long View Monday afternoon. A tractor-trailer was stuck on the ...

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Austin American-Statesman
Light rail crash in Austin leaves 1 dead, 2 hurt
KHOU
AP AUSTIN, Texas—Police say one person has been killed and two hurt after a Central Texas light rail commuter train hit a car during rush hour. Capital Metro spokeswoman Eric McKewen says the accident happened Monday morning at a rail crossing in ...
The entry titled "Capital Metro resumes rail service after one person dies in ...Austin American-Statesman (blog)
Crash Between Texas Commuter Train, Car Leaves One Dead MondayKWTX
Friends say man killed on tracks may have been stuckKVUE

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Crossing blamed in train-cattle trailer collision
LubbockOnline.com
Total Livestock owns the 1994 white freight liner and the 1996 silver livestock trailer involved in the crash with a BNSF train. The bovines belonged to a cattle union from the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas.

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Preliminary investigations find driver, not Capital Metro, at fault in train crash
Austin American-Statesman (blog)
Both APD and Capital Metro conclude that there was no conduct by Capital Metro, Herzog or the engineer that was a contributing factor to this accident. APD has preliminarily determined that the driver's failure to yield to the train was the sole ...

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AM Update: Tuition Rising at UT, A&M, Cameras Fail in Train Crash, Help Decide ...
KUT News
Rates at Texas A&M's main campus in College Station would not go up (page 14), but all other A&M campuses would see a ten dollar per credit hour increase for undergraduate classes. Monday's fatal collision between a MetroRail train and a vehicle driven ...

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Car hits beam of elevated train in Chicago; 4 die
KFVS
The New Zealand university hosting US students who were involved in a deadly weekend minivan crash said that they discourage international students from driving and will ratchet up those warnings in the future. One in 3 young adults with autism have no ...

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Austin American-Statesman
Round Rock medical school expands, keeps eye on UT
Austin American-Statesman
Jenny Williams, a nursing student, and Ross Pinson, a third-year medical student, intubate a high-fidelity mannequin simulating a cardiac crash at the Texas A&M Health Science Center's Round Rock campus in April. Arms are displayed on tables for ...

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US, Russian soldiers train together in Colorado
KTVN
More >> As SWAT team neared, Miss. kidnap-slaying suspect kills himself, authorities say 2 girls OKMore >> As SWAT team neared, Miss. kidnap-slaying suspect kills himself, authorities say 2 girls OKMore >> Rebecca Cronon Channel 2 News A rollover crash ...

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Atchafalaya Voices
The Daily Advertiser
The accident happened at 3 Sunday morning on Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line near Franklin in St. Mary Parish. A total of 13 passengers and crewmembers perished. Frank "Doctor West" Mathews, engineer of passenger train #12, the eastbound Texas ...