11.   But on the way down, the engineer found the track blocked with rocks and the lid of a water tank.

12.   Greenpeace protesters had blocked rail tracks heading out of the Biblis plant Tuesday evening by chaining themselves to the rails.

13.   In southern Sweden, heavy snow blocked railroad tracks, and some passengers were stranded for hours, Swedish media reported.

14.   Instructors for engineers kept trains running, and police were deployed to prevent strikers blocking tracks.

15.   Jobless activists have occupied city halls, unemployment agencies, welfare offices and blocked train tracks in their campaign since early December to press for more aid.

16.   Jobless protesters blocked train tracks Tuesday to demand free travel for those out of work, disrupting traffic in at least eight stations around France.

17.   Rail service to the area was suspended after that incident and another in which Tamils blocked a track with tree trunks and boulders, police said.

18.   Protesters blocked train tracks with bales of straw and dangled from a railway bridge Tuesday, trying to stop a shipment of nuclear waste rumbling by train through Germany.

19.   Railroad officials said workers used iron scraps to block tracks in at least five sites across Bangladesh.

20.   The accident has blocked the track, and rail passengers are being detoured by bus.