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    Norfolk Southern agrees to $600M settlement in fiery Ohio derailment. Locals fear it’s not enough
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    Norfolk Southern agrees to $600M settlement in fiery Ohio derailment. Locals fear it’s not enough
    Apr 09, 2024
    By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train der...
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    Pitt-Bradford students create original theater piece, ‘Berlin Walls’
    Local News, News
    Pitt-Bradford students create original theater piece, ‘Berlin Walls’
    Mar 29, 2024
    The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s student actors will perform a piece of their own creation April 4 to 7. Students will perform “Berlin Walls...
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    Still no legislation addressing train transport of hazardous materials
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Still no legislation addressing train transport of hazardous materials
    Feb 26, 2024
    Lawmakers must help first responders by passing legislation addressing train transport of hazardous materials On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern trai...
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    Transit bailout could derail Shapiro’s budget
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Transit bailout could derail Shapiro’s budget
    NATHAN BENEFIELD and ANDREW HOLMAN 
    Feb 21, 2024
    Gov. Josh Shapiro thinks mass transit is too big to fail. In his recent budget address, Shapiro pitched sending roughly $300 million every year from P...
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    Anticipating report on East Palestine
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Anticipating report on East Palestine
    Feb 15, 2024
    The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of the February 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment at East Palestine, Ohio, near that sta...
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    Railroads say they’re making safety changes to reduce derailments after fiery Ohio crash
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    Railroads say they’re making safety changes to reduce derailments after fiery Ohio crash
    JOSH FUNK Associated Press 
    Feb 06, 2024
    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statist...
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    HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY: The story of the Peg Leg Railroad
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    HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY: The story of the Peg Leg Railroad
    SALLY RYAN COSTIK Special to The Era 
    Jan 27, 2024
    The Bradford Era and Sally Costik of the Bradford Landmark Society are pleased to present a new series of articles on local history called “Happenings...
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    Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit falls 33% as Ohio derailment costs continue to grow
    Business, News
    Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit falls 33% as Ohio derailment costs continue to grow
    JOSH FUNK Associated Press 
    Jan 27, 2024
    Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, bu...
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    Train rounds ‘Droney Curve’
    Local News, News
    Train rounds ‘Droney Curve’
    Jan 17, 2024
    Tom Huntoon captured this shot of a (long) train on the tracks, rounding the snowy “Droney Curve” in the Lewis Run and Gifford area.
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    $3B for private high-speed rail
    Opinion, Сolumns
    $3B for private high-speed rail
    Dec 29, 2023
    Commuters may want high-speed rail — but at what price? Apparently $3 billion. That’s what the U.S. Department of Transportation committed this month ...
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    Ready, set, travel: The holiday rush to the airports and highways is underway
    Nation & World, News
    Ready, set, travel: The holiday rush to the airports and highways is underway
    DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer 
    Dec 22, 2023
    It's beginning to look a lot like a hectic holiday travel season, but it might go relatively smoothly if the weather cooperates. Travel over Christmas...
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    Bradford Twp. engine finds new home
    Local News, News
    Bradford Twp. engine finds new home
    Dec 19, 2023
    Members of the Allentown, N.Y., Volunteer Fire Department came to Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department to pick up Engine 151 on Saturday mornin...
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    Landfill rail transfer station work continues into 2024
    Daily Headlines, Local News, Online Features
    Landfill rail transfer station work continues into 2024
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Dec 16, 2023
    Discussions about a rail siding at the landfill in Sergeant Township have been ongoing for years. And now it’s closer to reality, explained Jeff Weld,...
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    Troubled train tunnel gets $3.8B
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Troubled train tunnel gets $3.8B
    Nov 30, 2023
    The delayed and over-budget Hudson River tunnel project in New York and New Jersey received yet another $3.8 billion from U.S. taxpayers, Sen. Chuck S...
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    Applications being accepted for Sinnemahoning watershed grants
    Local News
    Applications being accepted for Sinnemahoning watershed grants
    Nov 24, 2023
    EMPORIUM — Applications are being accepted until Jan. 20 for the 9th round of the Sinnemahoning watershed grant program. Settlement monies from the Ju...
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    D.C.’s Metro wants more money
    Opinion, Сolumns
    D.C.’s Metro wants more money
    Nov 17, 2023
    Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...
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    RTS: Rail
    News, Round the Square
    RTS: Rail
    Nov 15, 2023
    RAIL: Here’s an interesting tale of the railroad from The Era back in 1901. It is stated upon good authority that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. contem...
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    Railroad work to close North Kendall Avenue starting Nov. 13
    Local News, News
    Railroad work to close North Kendall Avenue starting Nov. 13
    Nov 02, 2023
    CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced B&P Railroad will close Route 46, North Kendall Avenue, in the City of ...
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    ‘A significant step’: U.S. Steel unveils its new battery-operated locomotive
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    ‘A significant step’: U.S. Steel unveils its new battery-operated locomotive
    EVAN ROBINSON-JOHNSON Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Oct 31, 2023
    United States Steel Corp. unveiled a battery-powered locomotive on Monday as part of its ongoing effort to clean up operations in the Mon Valley. The ...
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    Coalition urging feds to improve rail hazmat communications
    Nation & World, News
    Coalition urging feds to improve rail hazmat communications
    Oct 28, 2023
    HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry leads a coalition of 13 attorneys general in supporting a federal rule proposal that would mandate railro...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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