This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in August 2005. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 2004. ... This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2005. ... This article will list events related to rail transport that are currently scheduled to occur in 2006. ... Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam in many countries in the decades after World War II. Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

August events

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August 1 – August 6

August 1

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  - Kilkis, northern Greece: A truck driver is killed after he ignored grade crossing warning signs and his truck is hit by an oncoming passenger train of the Hellenic Railways Organization. The train's crew are only slightly injured, and all of the train's passengers are uninjured and continue their journey by bus. (Kathimerini)
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  - Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation announce a joint venture to dispatch unit trains of produce (including apples, pears, potatoes and onions) between Wallula, Washington, and Albany, New York, interchanging from one railroad to the other in Chicago. The terminal facilities in Washington and New York will be owned and operated by Railex, LLC. The new trains will use newly built 64 ft (19.5 m) long refrigerator cars equipped with GPS tracking and advanced temperature monitoring equipment to ensure consistent temperatures for the trains' 124-hour coast to coast schedules. The new service is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2006. (UP)
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  - Britain's Network Rail announces that it has awarded a group of contracts worth an estimated £60 million to upgrade and overhaul the railroad's signalling system in south Wales. The contracts, awarded to Atkins Rail, Birse Rail and Armey Rail, encompasses Network Rail's Port Talbot East Re-signalling Project to replace equipment that dates to the 1960s; the project is scheduled to be completed in 2007. (RailStaff)

August 2

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  - Raleigh, North Carolina, United States: A dump truck drives around the gates at a grade crossing and is struck by Amtrak's northbound Carolinian passenger train. Both occupants of the dump truck died at the scene, 15 of the train's occupants suffered minor injuries, and the remaining 182 passengers are bussed to another train to continue their journey to New York City. (WRAL)

August 3

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  - The city of Roseville, California, officially opens the new display location for Southern Pacific 2252, a preserved Southern Pacific Railroad 4-6-0 originally built by Cooke Locomotive Works (builder's serial number 2360) in March 1897. From 1929 until the locomotive was retired in 1955, it was used in firefighting service over Donner Pass.^[1] The new display site overlooks the former SP (now Union Pacific Railroad) yard in Roseville and features solar-powered lights to illuminate the locomotive at night. The locomotive was moved from its old display site at the Placer County Fairgrounds in October 2004. (Rocklin and Roseville Today)
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  - 43 cars (nearly all of them tank cars) of a 140-car westbound Canadian National Railway (CN) train from Edmonton to Vancouver derail at Wabamun, Alberta, about 50 km west of Edmonton, sending nearly 1.3 million litres of oil into nearby waterways including Wabamun Lake. Local residents are evacuated as at least one of the derailed tank cars carried toluene. No injuries are reported, but the accident closes CN's mainline for 36 hours while crews clean up the spill. The closure also impacts VIA Rail Canada's passenger trains, requiring passengers to be bussed around the accident scene. (Trainboard) (Reuters)

August 4

• - Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a railroad technology development and testing center near Shcherbinka; one of the highlights of the visit is Yermak (named in honor of Yermak Timofeyevich who helped open Siberia to Russian expansion), the first new domestic locomotive built in Russia in nearly 25 years. The new electric locomotive is anticipated to use 15% less energy to operate than comparable foreign-built locomotives. (ITAR-TASS)
• - Argentinian railroad workers across the country (except for the subway operators in Buenos Aires) go on strike for 24 hours demanding higher wages. The strike comes after 100 days of failed negotiations between the railroads and the engine driver unions; if an agreement cannot be reached within a week, the unions have threatened a subsequent 36-hour strike. The railroad employees strike coincides with a 72-hour health care workers strike that is still occurring. (Prensa Latina)

August 5

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  - About 100 residents of Wabamun, Alberta, Canada, participate in a five-hour blockade in protest on the Canadian National Railway mainline through the community. The protesters aim for more frequent updates and a better response to the spillage of nearly 1.3 million litres (over 340,000 gallons) of heavy bunker fuel oil after the derailment there on August 3. (CBC)

August 6

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  - The city of Toledo, Ohio prepares the paperwork to file suit against Norfolk Southern. After a 24 pound (10.9 kg) steel plate thrown from by two miscreants off an overpass, and then the plate fell onto a passing automobile killing its driver, the city vowed to put up fences on all of the overpasses in the city to prevent a similar accident from recurring. The city claims that NS has been unresponsive in getting the fences installed and plans to sue the railroad to get the work completed. NS has declined comment stating that it is the railroad's policy not to comment on any pending lawsuits. (WTOL)

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August 7 – August 13

August 8

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  - Norfolk Southern contacts the office of the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, in response to the threatened lawsuit. The railroad has committed to doing what needs to be done to put up the fences that the city wanted on the railroad overpasses, and the city suspends its legal action against the railroad. (WTOL)

August 9

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  - BNSF Railway rejects a proposal made by Southern California officials in Riverside and Orange Counties to build an elevated expressway above its tracks adjacent to the Riverside Freeway. BNSF claims that the construction would be too disruptive of the traffic on the railroad, traffic which serves the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. BNSF also cited the difficulties such an expressway would cause the railroad when it would want to expand its own right of way to add more tracks along the corridor. (KTLA) (LA Times)
• - Officials of the Abkhazian delegation to talks on rebuilding the railroad link between Russia and Georgia through Abkhazia disrupt the proceedings by refusing to allow two Georgian officials entry to the meeting in Sukhumi. The Abkhazian officials refuse entry on the grounds that the two Georgian officials "are internally displaced persons who fled Abkhazia during the 1992-93 war." Previous meetings between Abkhazian and Georgian officials have proceeded without incident; a subsequent meeting date has not been announced. (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

August 10

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  - Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) and CSX Transportation (CSX) announce that PAL will lease 124.5 miles of track from CSX to form a new Class III railroad. The new railroad, the Evansville Western Railway (EVWR), will operate as a subsidiary to PAL over the leased track between Evansville, Indiana, and Okawville, Illinois, which includes part of CSX's Mount Vernon Branch. PAL has secured a 20 year lease on the track with an option for a five-year extension for an undisclosed sum. (Evansville Courier) (STB)
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  - The Flying Yankee trainset, one of the earliest streamliners built in 1935 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the Boston and Maine Railroad soon after the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr, is moved from its display location to Lincoln, New Hampshire. The train has already had a cosmetic restoration, now it will undergo a mechanical restoration so it can travel under its own power again. (NH Union Leader)

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August 14 – August 20

August 21 – August 27

August 28 – August 31

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• CBC News (August 6, 2005), Province orders cleanup of Alberta oil spill. Retrieved August 9, 2005.
• Colquhoun, Lorna, New Hampshire Union Leader (August 11, 2005), Flying Yankee rolls into Hobo Railroad. Retrieved August 11, 2005.
• Browder, Cullen; Mason, Scott and LaGrone, Paul; WRAL (August 2, 2005), Two Dead After Amtrak Train Hits Dump Truck. Retrieved August 3, 2005.
• Evansville Courier (August 10, 2005), New regional railroad line planned. Retrieved August 10, 2005.
• Evansville Western Railway (August 3, 2005), Acquisition and Operation Exemption. Retrieved August 10, 2005.
• ITAR-TASS (August 4, 2005), Putin arrives at railroad test center in Moscow region. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
• Kathimerini, English Edition (August 2, 2005), Truckdriver killed after collision on railroad crossing near Kilkis. Retrieved August 3, 2005.
• Prensa Latina (August 4, 2005), Argentinian Railroad Workers Join Health Sector in Strike. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
• RailStaff (August 1, 2005), South Wales - £400 Million of Signalling Investment. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
• Rocklin and Roseville Today (August 5, 2005), Mighty 2252 Relocation Complete. Retrieved August 5, 2005.
• Socor, Vladimir, Eurasia Daily Monitor (August 10, 2005), Abkhaz derail railroad talks. Retrieved August 10, 2005.
• SP 2252 (details for August 3 event). Retrieved August 5, 2005.
• Union Pacific Railroad (August 2, 2005), Union Pacific and CSX to Introduce a New Produce Service in 2006. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
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