So Monday night I boarded an 8 PM Amtrak (the Texas Eagle route) which runs from Chicago all the way to L.A. First time on a train.
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George Osborne was forced to pay for an upgrade after sitting in a first-class train carriage with a standard-class ticket.
The engineers are hoping to spot nascent mechanical problems on long-distance train lines run by First ScotRail, a Scottish train operator.
He was the first president born in South Carolina and the first to travel on a train.
For the first time ever a road train comprising a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60 and a Volvo S60 plus one truck automatically driving in convoy behind a lead vehicle has operated on a public motorway among other road users.
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Federal officials have narrowed their probe into the cause of a May 17 derailment and train crash in Connecticut, saying a cracked rail joint where the first train slid off the tracks had been repaired by maintenance workers last month.
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One major step forward was taken last week on a motorway outside Barcelona - the first-ever test drive of a road train among other road users.
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This is not the first time rebels have seized a train in the area.
The movie Roger Ebert calls "a first-rate thriller" tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to "exchange" murders, each killing the person the other wants dead.
He was fired in September from a position at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders in the case of a bioterrorism attack.
When people first saw a motion picture of a train approaching, they ran screaming from the theaters because it seemed so real.
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Mr Berlusconi's spokesman explained that he could not after all be there as he had to lay the first stone for a high-speed train-bridge and then meet the Bulgarian foreign minister.
"You're waiting for a train and the first thing that pops into your head as you're waiting for it is get in front of it, because if that hits you you're not waking up, " he says.
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Stranger still, was the fact that the first time I sat on a tube train, many of the passengers seemed to be totally oblivious to the startling contents at the front of these papers, and were reading them backwards - starting with the sport pages, not even reading the pages where an attempt at telling the news might be.
Maybe, just maybe, pathological overusers are more like early moviegoers who fled theaters on first seeing moving images of a rapidly onrushing train than they are like drunks and junkies.
In the first derailment incident, the locomotive of a train transporting coal ended up on its side after derailing on a set of points at Filton at 0230GMT on Wednesday.
She was one of 269 people badly injured when a First Great Western express heading for London's Paddington station collided with a Thames Train service on 5 October 1999.
The first explosion tore through the second carriage of a train at 0756 (0356GMT), as it stood at central Lubyanka station waiting for morning rush hour commuters to board.
After Hatfill was designated a "person of interest, " he lost his job at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders to handle a bioterrorism attack, and had his apartment searched three times.
Los Angeles first responders dealt with the same issue when a commuter train collided with a freight train in 2008.
The first four cars of the moving train fell off a viaduct a bridge for trains and onto the ground below.
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There should be nine data recorders aboard the first train, which will aid the investigation a great deal if they aren't damaged, Hersman said.
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The roster of recently born awards (see table, next page) expanded last month with the first Prize for Civil Courage, a creation of John Train, a 72-year-old New York investment counsel, and his Northcote Parkinson Fund.
Hitachi's first train factory in Europe is to go ahead after a contract was awarded to a development company.
The MTA briefly used a similar strategy when it first restored service on the G train after the storm.
The Taco Truck's bid to ace last year's race ended on the first day when the sculpture's drive train broke on a sand dune, says Weiss.
Train company First Capital Connect said it was running a normal timetable but spokesman Roger Perkins predicted delays on Thameslink through Bedford and the Great Northern route to King's Lynn in Norfolk.
Using interviews, inspections of wreckage and reviews of maintenance data, NTSB investigators have determined that the first, eastbound Metro-North train derailed and came to a stop in the path of an approaching westbound train.
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It began as a low rumble, I thought it was a train or large machine on the road at first, but when the whole house began to shake I realised it could only be an earthquake or perhaps a large plane crash.
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