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The Amtrak Line: Even before deadly crash, rail board was considering tearing up tracks
- Peter Salter
- Sep 10, 2017
- Sep 10, 2017 Updated Sep 29, 2018
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The local railroad safety district is looking into removing the BNSF Railway line in southwest Lincoln, shown here from West A to F street. Last month, two teens were killed in a collision with an Amtrak train at the West South Street crossing.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Railroad crossings in designated quiet zones are required to have medians -- concrete dividers that keep drivers in their lanes and unable to steer around crossing arms.
- PETER SALTER, Journal Star
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The Amtrak left the depot just after midnight Aug. 18, making its nightly run out of Lincoln on a route established nearly 150 years ago.
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A memorial to victims of a car-train collision stands near the BNSF Railway crossing at West South Street.
ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
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The local railroad safety district is looking into removing the BNSF Railway line in southwest Lincoln, shown here from West A to F street. Last month, two teens were killed in a collision with an Amtrak train at the West South Street crossing.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
A memorial to victims of a car-train collision stands near the BNSF Railway crossing at West South Street.
- ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star
Railroad crossings in designated quiet zones are required to have medians -- concrete dividers that keep drivers in their lanes and unable to steer around crossing arms.
- PETER SALTER, Journal Star
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