Trains and Trucks Under Scrutiny In Colfax And Blue Canyon
At a Colfax Colfax Municipal Advisory Commission meeting officials examined derailment risks on the 20.5 mile Colfax to Blue Canyon route rising from 2 400 to 5 300 feet with freight trains at 30 mph. They stressed prevention through more training and better UP community communication and law enforcement along I 80 to curb hazardous material incidents and ensure safe transport by rail and road.
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Weimar
Applegate
Colfax Municipal Advisory Commission
Colfax
Blue Canyon
Sacramento
Reno
Cape Horn
Colfax Fire Department
California Department of Forestry
Sierra
Placer County
Union Pacific
Colfax letters address rude traffic stop and local notices
Readers recount a Colfax traffic stop by Officer Seipert over a missing stop sign and critique the interaction as rude. The letter also covers a state grant case, Colfax Lions Crab Feed support, and gratitude for community Christmas projects and volunteers at Colfax Methodist Church.
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Mr. Seipert
Colfax Lions Club
Colfax
Colfax Lions
Citrus Heights Lions Club
Gold Country Lioness Club
Colfax High School
Sierra Vista Center
Colfax Chronicles reflects weekly Colfax history notes
Rail fans view the 2002 Union Pacific Olympic Train in Colfax as it traces the Torch Run along Interstate 80 returning from Sparks on Monday night en route to Oregon. Other brief items note a 60th anniversary, school honors, a road study for Colfax, and local business and civic notes.
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Colfax
Sparks
Nevada
Oregon
Sierra Chevrolet
Canyon Way
Charles
Evelyn Lish
Placer Hills
Jeff Shults
Linda Bridges
Angela Dudley
Weimar Hills
Alex Smith
Alta-Dutch Flat
Casey Wyant
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Washington, D.C
Robert L. del Carlo
Southern Pacific
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Colfax Record
Colfax Sentinel
Colfax Enterprise
California Newspapers Publishers Association
National Newspaper Association
Craig Dennis, A. Thomas Homer Mike Ray
Joan Meyers
Miriam Winder
Anke Lee Carter Townshend
Office Sunshine
Auburn Journal, Inc
High St
Auburn
Church
California
Pact County
Ine
Son
Rose Mountain Manor
I-80
Mike Seipert
Seipert
Resource Conservation District
FDR
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Nesses
Colfax Methodist Church
Colfax Chronicles
Caltrans
General Fund
Colfax Soroptimist Club
L. McClain
George Bayne
Culver Street
Oak
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