SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that the railway […]
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Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains
SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that the the […]
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized. “They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a poor white girl,” she told CNN at her single-room […]
Trains collide in eastern India, killing at least 5 with rescue work ongoing
NEW DELHI (AP) — Five people died and several were injured when a cargo train rammed into a passenger train in India’s eastern state of West Bengal on Monday, local media reported. The state’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee said in a post on social media platform X that a goods train had collided with Kanchanjunga […]
‘Just much easier.’ Hundreds ride special trains to the US Open in Pinehurst
Rainfall deluge shutting down Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Trains, bus and planes halted
The severe rain bomb that triggered an “exceedingly rare” flash flood emergency — meant for catastrophic showers — in multiple South Florida cities has led to the closure of universities, government agencies and transit systems on Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued the emergency alert for portions of southern Broward and northern Miami-Dade Counties. Four […]
Powder River Coal Trains by Jeremy Taylor Hard Cover
Buenos Aires trains slow to crawl as protesting conductors demand wage hike
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Trains in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires slowed to a crawl on Thursday, doubling passengers’ commute time, according to union rail workers who held an unusual protest demanding better wages after talks with company officials failed to resolve the situation. La Fraternidad (The Brotherhood) railway workers’ union said it had decided to […]
The Associated Press rode one of the longest trains in India to interview voters about an election that will be decided in June
The 1,800-mile (2,900-kilometer) journey south from New Delhi to Kanyakumari is one of the longest train rides in India, passing through cities, villages, scrub forests and deep ravines.The 22-car Thirukkural Express is a microcosm of India, carrying passengers from different castes and religions and with wide-ranging ambitions and grievances — from migrants crammed into sweltering […]
Three Vintage Life-Like Trains HO Scale Freight Cars: (2) Box Cars & Hopper NIB
Private rooms coming to some of Japan’s bullet trains
Japan’s beloved Shinkansen trains are getting another upgrade. From 2026, some trains on the Tokaido line – the country’s busiest line, as it connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka – will have private rooms with doors in the upper class section. According to a release from Japan Rail, the rooms are being added “in order to […]
ECISD administrative assistant trains frontline staff nationwide
Apr. 22—The training and leadership she received at Ector County ISD is what prompted Kash-unta Thurman to start KT Executive Services LLC. Thurman has been with ECISD for nine years and is the administrative assistant to Chief Technology Officer Kellie Wilks. KT Executive Services is now in its second year. Thurman added that she has […]