when I had time, about once a day I would search Yahoo news with railroad as a search term. That got me a lot of news
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Have you tried "Google Alerts" yet to keep up on RR news. Now mind you, it may not be as railfan oriented, but any mainstream news about your favorite RR can be obtained using this very user-friendly tool.
Go to Google.com. Above the search box, you'll see options for:
Web Images Groups News Froogle Maps MORE>>
Click on "More" and it will scroll right. You'll come to an option for "Alerts" Click on that.
You input the word (i.e. BNSF) or words (i.e. Union Pacific) that you'd like it to monitor and your e-mail address. If a news story is posted to one of thousands of websites, you will get an e-mail with the headline. You can click the headline and get the story.
Last week, when UP had a derailment near Klamath Falls, Or, UP provided pretty sparse info on the incident in their official channels, but the Google alert I got provided quite a bit of detail.
If Trains.com wants to cut-off Newswire to folks like me.... who buy about 10-12 copies a year at my local hobby shop, there are ways around that. By the way, did anybody else find that decision to be an interesting coincidence of timing with the unfortunate demise of the Altamont Press news website (pronounced: "a competing data source".)
Anyway - Google away and you'll get some news delivered to you.
--Stack
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