Emergency responders in Monroe County have been warned that trains carrying liquefied natural gas may soon be traveling through the area.
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Train station work under way
The new Rochester Amtrak station is officially under construction. Officials say that that the station should be completed in 2017. Most of the work happening through this year will be site preparation and design work. CSX, which owns the railway that carries Amtrak trains through Rochester, will remove unused signal poles by the end of […]
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Rochester’s crude awakening
The amount of crude oil being hauled on the nation’s freight rail lines is on the upswing. The oil and rail industries say that’s because of surging oil output from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale formation as well as a lack of pipeline capacity. A December article from the American Association of Railroads says crude oil […]
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Schumer targets specific type of railroad tanker
In 2009, approximately 30 railroad cars per day were shipping oil or ethanol across the United States, but that figure has grown substantially over the last few years, according to Senator Chuck Schumer. Approximately 200 to 300 of the cars pass through Rochester on the CSX freight line each day, Schumer said today during a press […]
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“The Lone Ranger”
As history demonstrates, the law of the conservation of matter applies magnificently to Hollywood, where nothing, it seems, is ever wasted, lost, or forgotten. The Lone Ranger galloped through decades of radio shows, comic books, television series, and movies, yet returns once again, with his faithful Indian companion Tonto and his white horse Silver, only […]
