Santa Fe Railway

Santa Fe Railway has announced that it is recalling 96 employees at its rail car repair shops in Topeka and 67 employees at its locomotive repair shops in San Bernardino, effective Jan. 2. Bob Gehrt, a Santa Fe spokesman in Chicago, said the workers are being recalled in Topeka to restart the company's heavy car repair program, mainly repairing jumbo covered hopper cars used to transport grain. He said those workers were furloughed last April.

Three of the four Santa Fe railway workers killed in a crash here, including a woman brake operator working her first shift ever, burned to death after jumping from their locomotive just before it rammed an oncoming freight train, officials said Thursday. "The indications to me are that they had gotten out and then the explosion occurred," said Deputy Riverside County Coroner Alan Wesefeldt.

Santa Fe Railway on Tuesday sold 47 miles of rail line to the Orange County Transportation Authority for use as commuter lines. The sale was part of a $148-million sale of 100 miles of rail by Santa Fe to three Southern California transportation agencies. OCTA bought the railway's Olive line, which runs from Atwood to Orange, and the Orange County portion of the San Diego line, from Fullerton to San Clemente.