41.   A freight train derailed in northern Russia, damaging tracks and blocking rail traffic for hours Wednesday, official said.

42.   A four-hour inferno scorched ticket windows, disrupted rail traffic and injured five people at the station between late Friday night and early Saturday.

43.   A similar action last Wednesday stopped rail traffic in Hess and Lower Saxony states.

44.   A passenger train crashed into a derailed freight wagon Thursday in southeast Germany, causing long delays of rail traffic into Austria and Italy.

45.   A strike by train conductors disrupted rail traffic Saturday in central France around the Loire Valley city of Tours.

46.   According to UP, most rail traffic has been rerouted through Eagle Pass and Brownsville, Texas.

47.   A week ago IRA bomb exploded near rail lines in Leeds and Doncaster, disrupting rail traffic in northern England.

48.   All rail traffic between Marseille and Nice was interrupted, and trains departing for other parts of France were prevented from leaving the station.

49.   An unprecedented power outage crippled rail traffic Wednesday morning in southern Germany, leaving tens of thousands of travelers and commuters stranded in stopped trains.

50.   An overnight, northbound train packed with vacationers derailed outside a suburban Rome station early Saturday, slightly injuring four persons and snarling rail traffic, authorities reported.