Tickets still available for Iowa City steam train trips (The Gazette)

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:07:58 GMT

Tickets are still available for the Iowa Interstate Railroad's steam-powered Rail Ride for Flood Relief Oct. 18 and 19.The Cedar Rapids-based railroad will operate its two Chinese QJ-class locomotives, among the world's last revenue steam engines, on excursion trips aboard vintage passenger cars between Rock Island and Walcott and Rock Island and Silvis, Ill., the afternoon of Oct. 18. A ...

Castaway: American sailor tells how he got stranded from his Chinese junk (Eureka Times-Standard)

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:29:20 GMT

After sailing for more than two months in a Chinese junk that was crossing the Pacific Ocean from China, Hugh Morrow got marooned in Eureka. Morrow, a 29-year-old traveler from Iowa, was the only American sailor aboard the Princess Taiping,

Chinese pork buyers tour U.S. production facilities (Meat News)

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:39:55 GMT

DENVER ? Eleven representatives of China?s pork industry arrived in Ohio earlier this week to begin a week-long review of U.S. pork production and processing practices.