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Daylight Saving Time: Remind me again why we 'spring forward'?
Christian Science Monitor
"With 50 railroads operating off of dozens of timetables, if you didn't pay attention, you'd have two trains heading for each other on the same track," Mr. ...
Daylight Savings Time 2010 and DST 2010 Begin Getting Ready for Spring Forward!CNM News Network

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Train kills woman, injures child she was carrying
Belleville News Democrat
Authorities say they were trying to cross railroad tracks about 9 am Saturday when they were struck by a Metra train. A man and second child were also ...

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Plain Dealer (blog)

Railroads pushed the uniformity in time across the United States in the late 1880s
Plain Dealer (blog)
... trains on common tracks. Mistakes could result in collisions. Finally, acting on their own authority, the railroads decided to impose order on chaos. ...

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Long Island Press

Riding & surfing the rails
New York Post
If successful, the system could literally change how the half-million people who ride both railroads every day commute -- right now, most web-surfing riders ...
LIRR running promotion with Rock of AgesNewsday (subscription) (blog)
Man fatally struck by LIRR train near Deer ParkNewsday (subscription)
Local lawmakers call for audit of MTANewsday (subscription)

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