Dead Body Travels 1,000 Miles on Amtrak
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CHICAGO - An Amtrak passenger traveling with her ailing father waited nearly 23 hours and about 1,000 miles to tell authorities he had died so she could avoid the cost of shipping the body home, police said.
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The Amtrak trains arrived at Union Station yesterday afternoon, and out streamed an Iraqi refugee, a former circus performer from Chile, a nurse's assistant from Haiti and nearly 100 others at the last stop of a cross-country tour to press for new immigration laws.
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MELBOURNE, Australia  - Emergency crews on Wednesday removed the last bodies of 11 passengers killed when their train was hit by a truck a day earlier on a rail crossing in southern Australia, police said.
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The body of a boy believed to be that of a missing 9-year-old was discovered Tuesday on a mountain road about 1 1/2 miles from his home, authorities said.
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HYDERABAD, Pakistan  - A Pakistani train packed with holiday travelers came off the rails on Wednesday and at least one person was killed and dozens were trapped inside, an ambulance service official said.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Even employees of the famously punctual Swiss railroads can miss a train.  Last week, a train left the station at Aigle, in the French-speaking west of Switzerland, without its conductor and with its doors wide open, the Swiss railroad company confirmed Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 8 -- Investigators wearing protective suits and oxygen tanks Saturday discovered the body of a factory worker missing since a train carrying chlorine gas wrecked earlier this week, causing one of the nation's deadliest chemical spills in years.
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A man was struck and killed early Tuesday by a commuter train sent to pick up passengers stranded after their first train hit and killed a woman, authorities said.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Carla Coco-Boutte of Santa Barbara, Calif., stepped off an Amtrak train here Wednesday for a brief Canadian excursion, but her souvenirs of the trip won't be aboriginal carvings or smoked salmon.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The dead driving the dead. At least that's how the government seemed to have it in the case of Frank Jansky, a 75-year-old Kansas City man who drives a hearse part-time. Even as he lived and breathed, the Social Security Administration seemed to think he was no longer alive.
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Up to 1,000 passengers are dead or missing from a train that was flung off its tracks by this week&#39;s massive tsunami, police said, as workers on Tuesday cremated or buried bodies from the twisted wreckage.
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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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An Amtrak train derailed in this city Thursday night, but Amtrak officials said there were no reports of injuries.
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One person was killed and more were feared dead when an elevated ultra-modern train crashed into a service vehicle at high speed during a test run in northwestern Germany.
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MINNEAPOLIS - An 87-year-old man was killed Saturday when his car was hit by a light rail train in south Minneapolis, the first fatal accident on the rail system since it began operation three months ago.
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A man has been knocked down and killed by a train on the line near Larne in County Antrim.
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An Amtrak train struck a car at a railroad crossing Monday, killing four people in the car, police said.