CHICAGO SIGHTINGS NEWS DAILY [EDITED]
Dennis Parejko
CHICAGO SIGHTINGS NEWS DAILY [EDITED]
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MONDAY - 03-17-97 DISPATCHED: 10:15am CST
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TODAY:
CHICAGO AREA NEWS
+ New Overpass In Oak Lawn,IL
+ UP Lowering Track
BNSF
+ BNSF Today
UNION PACIFIC
+ UP Update
+ UP Lowering Track
+ UP To Pay Interest
ACCIDENT REPORT
+ DW&P Worker Hit & Dragged By Engine
+ Many More Reports
SEPTA
+Odors, Odors, Odors!
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The State of Illinois is going to build a highway overpass over
the Indiana Harbor Belt on 111th Street between Cicero Avenue and
Central Avenue in Oak Lawn,IL.
The project, which began this month, will be completed in 1998 and
will greatly relieve the traffic snarls on 111th Street due to the
numerous IHB and other rail line trains that use the IHB.
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Barnyard odor jars commuters
by Frank Dougherty
Daily News Staff Writer
Market-Frankford train commuters are making a big stink about
an overpowering stench of raw sewage that has SEPTA's 11th
Street subway station smelling like a country outhouse.
``The odor is so foul it makes me ill,'' said Marsha
Rogozinski, of Bridesburg, about what she called ``a God-awful
smell that has been around for months.''
City Water and Health Department officials say they became
aware of the situation early in February.
SEPTA employees working at 11th Street told a Daily News
reporter an effluvium
of raw sewage has been hovering over them like a shroud for
two to three months.
The source of the noxious fumes is a mystery.
Moran said the passing of trains through the subway tunnel could
be another factor since movement could cause ventilation of fetid
odors.
Philadelphia Daily News
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Union Pacific will lower the center track at Kenton Avenue,
Chicago, beneath the Belt Railway of Chicago underpass,
beginning Mar17. The work should be complete by May07. The Regional
Transportation Authority may be providing some of the funds for this project.
Tim Johnson
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BNSF Today
March 14, 1997
Blizzard Slows Burlington and Northern Lines Operations
Blizzard conditions blew across the Northern Lines
yesterday, bearingwinds up to 35 mph and dumping up to one
foot of snow on parts of North and South Dakota, Minnesota
and Wisconsin. The Hettinger Line was closed Thursday
night between Hettinger and Mobridge, S.D. due to heavy
drifting and is expected to be opened Friday afternoon.
Blowing snow, poor visibility and switch problems
delayed freight and intermodal trains across the Burlington
and Northern Lines and resulted in numerous dog-catches
(crew members who relieve the original crew who have
worked the maximum hours allowed by the Federal Hours Law)
and locomotive failures. Numerous highway closures also have
caused dog-catch crews to be transported by train.
Snow plows are clearing main lines today between
Richards Spur and Hawley, Minn., and between Dilworth, Minn.,
and New Rockford, N.D. Maintenance of Way will plow main lines
between Dilworth and Grand Forks,
N.D., tomorrow.
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From: Andrew Mueller
Newsgroups: misc.transport.rail.americas
Subject: "I thought I could make it"
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 21:21:43 +0000
The other day east of Portage, WI on the Soo/CP watertown Sub, in
the Town of Wyocena, a snowmobiler got his machine stuck while
crossing thetracks--apparently not at a crosssing. Amtrk was
bearing down on him so he tried to outrun the train by 'mobiling
down the tracks in from of them. Well, he finally jumped off of
the machine just before Amtrk hit the now junked 'mobile. He
was slightly injured! Ya gotta love it!
I think that this shows that Operation Lifesaver is rather
ineffective safety program. Andy
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Duluth News-Tribune.
Worker struck, dragged by locomotive
A railroad worker was struck by a locomotive early Friday as he
cleared snow from a switch at a Douglas County railroad yard
during a snowstorm.
Lloyd Peterson, 39, of Biwabik, Minn., was not seriously injured.
He was operating a snowblower at the Pokegama Rail Yard when two
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway locomotives, hooked together,
were shifting from one track to another track.
Douglas County sheriff's reports say the engine, driven by
Gordon Dahl, 51, of Iron, backed over the man, dragging him
several yards. The department is listing it as an industrial
accident.
Peterson suffered a broken arm in the 4:18 a.m. accident and
was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth where he
remained Friday night.
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3-16-97
Amtrak train #90 struck and killed a trespasser near Wildwood FL,
delaying the train over four hours.
Al Tuner
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Sun Mar 16 14:28:05 1997
Amtrak train #41 struck a van, killing the van's two occupants
west of Napanee last night. The train was delayed for two hours.
Al Tuner
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:42:48, -0500
From: MR CLAYTON S JOHANSON [OS LIST]
An eastbound Illinois Central(ex CCP) train heading eastbound hit a
car in a forest preserve in Bartlett, IL. The crossing was in a
forest preserve and was unprotected. She supposedly had her radio
turned up.
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 21:04:14 -0500 (EST)
CSXT has a one car derailment in Gordonsville VA, blocking their
line between Orange and Charlottesville this evening.
Al Tuner
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 21:01:48 -0500 (EST)
The Union Pacific has an eight car derailment in Kinter, blocking
their main line east of Yuma.
Al Tuner
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Union Pacific Railroad to Pay Interest on Subordinated Income
Debentures
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., March 17 Union Pacific Railroad
Company announced today that it will pay interest on April 1,
1997, in the amount of $1,451,972.50 (or $5.50 for each $100
principal amount) in respectof the 5-1/2% Subordinated Income
Debentures issued by The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
(MKT). The Company will also make sinking fundpayments of
$2,489,502.50 and $2,695,000, respectively, for the Debentures
and the related Certificates Representing a Charge on Income also
issued by the MKT. Such amounts are payable out of Available
Income of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (MPRR) for 1996. The Debentures and
Certificates were assumed by MPRR when it acquired
the MKT in 1988 and were assumed by the Company when MPRR was
legally merged with the Company on January 1, 1997. The
Company intends to satisfy its sinking fund obligations through
the application of Debentures and Certificates that have been
previously acquired.