#Woman charged for allegedly shoving passenger into NYC train

#Woman charged for allegedly shoving passenger into NYC train

“#Woman charged for allegedly shoving passenger into NYC train” The woman who randomly shoved a fellow straphanger into a moving train at a Manhattan subway station has been charged with attempted murder, authorities said Wednesday.  Linda Chavez, 33, of Queens, allegedly pushed the 31-year-old victim into a 6 train arriving at the Lexington Avenue/59th Street…

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#Amtrak CEO calls for Congress to expand TSA’s ‘No Fly List’ to rail passenger service

#Amtrak CEO calls for Congress to expand TSA’s ‘No Fly List’ to rail passenger service

“#Amtrak CEO calls for Congress to expand TSA’s ‘No Fly List’ to rail passenger service” Amtrak is responding to the largest union of rail workers calling for heightened security in Washington DC ahead of Inauguration Day travel. “We join our labor partners in continuing to call upon Congress and the Administration to make assaults against rail workers…

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#Moynihan Train Hall czar killed himself as pressure mounted

#Moynihan Train Hall czar killed himself as pressure mounted

“#Moynihan Train Hall czar killed himself as pressure mounted” In the days before he hanged himself, it was the clock that kept Michael Evans up at night. President of the public-private consortium, Moynihan Station Development Corp., Evans, 40, had already spent the better part of his professional career working on the conversion of the James…

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#Moynihan Train Station offers hope for out-of-town commuters

#Moynihan Train Station offers hope for out-of-town commuters

“#Moynihan Train Station offers hope for out-of-town commuters” There’s hope yet for out-of-town commuters — and maybe even the city itself: The James A. Farley Post Office has been transformed into an elegant and spacious train station, an addition to Penn Station across the street featuring a sunlight-bathing 92-foot-high skylight. Kudos to Gov. Cuomo, who…

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#Swan in mourning brings German trains to a halt

#Swan in mourning brings German trains to a halt

“#Swan in mourning brings German trains to a halt” It was a cygnet failure. A broken-hearted swan mourning its dead mate recently brought trains to a halt for almost an hour on a high-speed rail line in central Germany, according to reports. The sad swan refused to abandon the tracks for 50 minutes on Dec….

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#This Metro-North conductor has seen it all

#This Metro-North conductor has seen it all

“#This Metro-North conductor has seen it all” Fisticuffs, drunks throwing up, not-so-sneaky sex and the ritual scalping of rule-breakers on the quiet car — Metro-North conductor Michael Shaw saw it all during his 36 years working the New Haven line into Grand Central Terminal. Nonetheless, the wise-cracking 55-year-old, who retired in September, was devoted to…

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#Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers

#Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers

“#Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers” Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop is one step closer to becoming a reality, with the futuristic transportation system shuttling human passengers for the first time this weekend. The high-speed travel pod, which the company hopes will one day be able to shuttle passengers from New York to DC…

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#Video captures moment freight train plows into tractor-trailer

#Video captures moment freight train plows into tractor-trailer

“#Video captures moment freight train plows into tractor-trailer” Video shows the moment a freight train smashed into a tractor-trailer stuck on the tracks in Indiana. The truck was sitting on tracks in a traffic-congested area of Pendleton just outside of Indianapolis around 5:40 p.m. Friday when the train plowed into it, officials and witnesses said….

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#Daily Podcast: DC Fandome, Tenet, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 47 Ronin, From a Buick 8, An American Pickle & MODOK

#Daily Podcast: DC Fandome, Tenet, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 47 Ronin, From a Buick 8, An American Pickle & MODOK

“#Daily Podcast: DC Fandome, Tenet, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 47 Ronin, From a Buick 8, An American Pickle & MODOK” On the August 17, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and…

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