Word: railings
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...Boston University undergraduates were struck and killed by a MBTA commuter rail train early Wednesday morning in a tragedy that has left the BU campus grieving and investigators trying to determine why the students were on the tracks...
According to an article in yesterday’s Boston Globe, MBTA commuter trains have struck more trespassers during a recent five-year span than some larger commuter rail systems. 56 people have been killed by MBTA commuter rail trains since 2000. The accident brings the total number of deaths involving Boston subways, buses, and commuter trains over the past five years...
...Daily Free Press’s editorial also wrote that the incident raises the question of the potential danger posed by the rail tracks running right through the school’s campus...
...Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since...
CHARGED. JUAN ALVAREZ, 25, disturbed laborer who, in an apparent aborted suicide attempt, allegedly abandoned his Jeep Cherokee on a heavily traveled commuter-rail track in Glendale, Calif., during the morning rush, causing a colossal derailment that left about 200 people injured and at least 11 dead; with 11 counts of murder with "special circumstances," making him eligible for the death penalty; in Los Angeles...