TRAIN
The train always wins...
A couple of weeks ago I saw a young man in his vehicle hurry to beat the train that crosses 18th Street North at 12th Avenue North. The train wasn't moving too quickly, but it still was plenty dangero...
Posted on 5/14/13 at 9:51 PM
Train wreck: UND professor makes new waves with book about rail disasters
University of North Dakota Professor George Bibel has done it again--his latest popular book is about train crashes and follows his Beyond the Black Box, a well-received book about airplane crashes....
Posted on 11/2/12 at 10:59 AM
Up the Mountain
I had a decision to make. After the small-town experiences in Henan province, was I going to travel north to sight-see the Longmen Caves? There, centuries ago, Buddhist monks decorated hundreds of cav...
Posted on 8/11/12 at 8:36 AM
Up the Mountain; In the Now
I had a decision to make. After the small-town experiences of Henan province, was I going to travel north to sight-see the Longmen Caves? There, centuries ago, Buddhist monks decorated hundreds of c...
Posted on 8/24/11 at 3:40 PM
Train Disaster
Before the devastating tornado that struck Fargo Moorhead in June, 1957, perhaps the most talked about severe weather event may have been the Empire Builder tornado that hit this area on May 27, 1931....
Posted on 5/25/10 at 5:30 AM
Train victim identified
WEST FARGO (FNS) — Cass County authorities have identified the Fargo man who died in a collision between a train and a pickup just west of here Tuesday afternoon.May 16, 2013
Train collides with truck
By Michael Vosburg , May 15, 2013
Train carrying oil derails near Parkers Prairie, Minn.
By Al Edenloff , March 28, 2013
A new source of power
Could natural gas be used as locomotive fuel in the future? BNSF thinks it could.By Bryan Horwath , March 09, 2013
Death toll rises as boom takes hold: South Heart woman broken in accident, survives
By Erik Burgess , January 13, 2013
Texas vets' float crosses tracks after signals start
MIDLAND, Texas — A parade float that collided with a freight train, killing four military veterans, had crossed onto railroad tracks even though warning signals were going off, investigators said Saturday.By Juan Carlos Llorca , November 18, 2012
49 children killed in Egypt in train collision
By Mamdouh Thabet , November 17, 2012
3 arrested in eastern Montana for transporting pot on Amtrak train
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in northeastern Montana have arrested three people suspected of transporting several pounds of marijuana on an Amtrak train.October 10, 2012
Man killed when truck tractor struck by train
TOLLEY (AP) — The North Dakota highway patrol says a 20-year-old Mohall man was killed after the truck tractor and grain trailer he was driving was struck by a train.September 21, 2012
Coal dust keeps South Heart fire crews busy
Coal dust appears to be the culprit behind several fires this week along the railroad tracks near South Heart, officials said.By Betsy Simon , September 01, 2012
Empty cargo train derails in northeastern Montana
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A BNSF Railway official says that a cargo train has derailed on a main rail line running across the Northwest.July 05, 2012
Train depot booms with Oil Patch passengers
BISMARCK (AP) — Armies of workers migrating to and from North Dakota’s rich oil fields have made Williston’s train depot the busiest Amtrak stop in the state and the fastest-growing station in the nation, the railroad said.By James MacPherson , April 05, 2012
CP Railway shipping crude from new terminal
BISMARCK (AP) — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has begun shipping rich Bakken crude to the Gulf Coast from a rail-loading facility under construction in western North Dakota.March 09, 2012
Driver of semi recovering after hit by train in Montana
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Highway Patrol says the driver of a semi-trailer that was struck by a freight train in northeastern Montana is recovering at a Billings hospital.January 18, 2012
Man injured when train strikes truck near Hebron
A Hebron man was injured and his vehicle sustained severe damage Tuesday afternoon when he failed to yield to a train 2 miles east of Hebron near Old Highway 10.By Katherine Grandstrand , December 07, 2011
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