By earlier this year, it looked like the end was in sight with hopes to see the first quiet zone formally established this fall. Now, completion of the first phase has been pushed to next year.
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Two teens were injured Friday in a crash between a sport utility vehicle and a train at a railroad crossing in Robins, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
A semi-truck collided with a train near Amana Thursday morning, temporarily blocking a busy highway. No injuries were reported. The semi-truck driver was cited for failing to stop at an active train crossing.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed its strike notice against Canadian National shortly after it announced that it plans to challenge a government order that forced it into arbitration with both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. railroads to end a lockout, said union spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier.
Union Pacific’s Big Boy due in Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids after Labor Day.
Electric railcars ran between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City for almost 50 years
The move comes in the wake of a fiery derailment last year of a train carrying toxic chemicals in eastern Ohio that set off evacuations, a federal investigation and concerns about the effect the derailment and the fire could have on health and the environment.
Trains will not need to sound their horns as often while crossing four intersections in Hiawatha now that the city has unveiled the first “quiet zones” in the area, with several more being planned farther south in Cedar Rapids.
Exhibit, opening ceremonies focus on Eastern Iowa’s vital rail history.
A Cedar Rapids man, killed Friday in Cedar County when the semi-trailer truck he was driving was hit by a train, has been identified as Todd W. Evans, 47.
A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes, authorities said.
Freight trains have been getting longer — nearly 3 miles in some cases. But railroads say it’s up to the federal -- not state -- government to decide.
The train car next to the depot in City Square Park could be moved to Grant Wood Trail to make way for the Central Plaza project.
The owner of a Cedar Rapids office supply store saved a steam locomotive from the scrap yard and brought it to Cedar Rapids.
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