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... just five months in jail for cutting railroad safety wires in the Battle Creek area. Jeff Taylor is a former employee for Canadian National Railway who now runs an Upper Peninsula motel. His lawyer says Taylor had mental health…

In essence, the railroad would move an at-grade crossing elsewhere — other than at its current alignment on Merrill Hills Road adjacent to the Glacial Drumlin Trail and a small creek — and also work to improve its interchange of…

... danger: the crossing gates stayed down as if a train was coming through. The government contends cutting the wires deactivated a safety system forcing engineers to rely on their own awareness to avoid colliding with other trains or derailing.…

A former Canadian National Railway engineer says it's likely the operator of the locomotive involved in Tuesday's fatal collision between a CN freight train ... The CN train was travelling eastbound, which Wever said means the driver couldn't see the…

A map of the Salem Lakes railroad crossings from the study commissioned by the village last year. (Click for larger view) ... This is in contrast to an earlier funding idea that would have accessed only people within a given…