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New York (AFP) - The US freight company whose train derailed in Ohio last year, spilling large quantities of toxic chemicals, said Tuesday it has agreed to pay $600 million to settle lawsuits brought by the community over allegations of environmental damage and health problems. Norfolk Southern Corporation "has reached a $600 million agreement in principle to resolve a consolidated class action lawsuit relating to the East Palestine derailment," the company said in a statement. "If approved by the court, the agreement will resolve all class action claims within a 20-mile radius from the derail...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Train enthusiast Joe Biden unveiled a $8.2 billion plan Friday to get America's creaking rail network back on track, including its first ever high-speed link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States. But the US president, who used the train between his Delaware home and Washington so much as a US senator that he was nicknamed "Amtrak Joe," visited Las Vegas to announce a series of federally funded rail upgrades. "You have no idea how much this pleases me," Bide...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Proposed high-speed rail lines in the western United States moved a step closer to reality Tuesday with the announcement of $6 billion in government grants. The cash will come from President Joe Biden's signature infrastructure bill aimed at revamping the country's creaking railways, roads and bridges, and is part of a plan to double the number of people taking the train by 2040. Half of the cash will go towards the construction of a high-speed line spanning 218 miles (350 kilometers) between Las Vegas and downtown Los Angeles, slashing the current five-hour car journey ti...
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Washington (AFP) - Three people died Monday when a long-distance train collided with a dump truck in a rural region of the US state of Missouri, leaving multiple passengers injured, local officials said. Seven of the Amtrak train's approximately eight cars derailed on a route from Los Angeles to Chicago when it struck the truck at a rail crossing southwest of Mendon, Missouri. Railcars were seen toppled on their sides along a farm field as passengers climbed out the windows and doors in images posted to social media. "It all happened like slow motion. It started to rock and, and rock, and then...
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Washington (AFP) - Amtrak on Sunday expressed condolences to the families of those killed when a train derailed the day before in northern Montana, saying it was "fully cooperating" with an investigation into the deadly incident. "We have no words that can adequately express our sorrow for those who lost a loved one or who were hurt in this horrible event," the US rail operator's CEO, Bill Flynn, said in a statement. Around 141 passengers and 16 crew members were traveling from Chicago towards the Pacific coast on Saturday afternoon when eight of the 10 cars came off the tracks at around 4:00 ...
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