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The nation's most productive underground coal mine, located in Washington and Greene counties, Pennsylvania, likely will double in size.

The nation's major freight railroads are joining with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a partnership aimed at reducing locomotive fuel consumption and emissions.

Greenwood's new $4.5 million Columbus & Greenville Railway bypass will likely fuel the city's economic engine by attracting more companies to the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Park, city and state officials say.

A circuit breaker designed to prevent fires like the one last month on a heavily traveled railroad bridge was improperly installed, Amtrak officials said.

Dirt work was completed early Friday in Carlsbad, New Mexico, under tracks sagging after last weekend

A groundbreaking ceremony is set for Monday to mark the beginning of construction of a new rail line to serve the Keystone Generating Station in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, west of Shelocta.

The manufacturer of Amtrak's sidelined Acela Express trains will begin testing new brake equipment next week that could return at least some of the trains to service as early as this month, officials said.

Union Pacific said speed was a factor in a train crash near Blairstown, Iowa, earlier this year.

A Pittsburg, Kansas, railroad company that began with fewer than ten employees more than 20 years ago is the recipient of the Governor's Award of Excellence.

The railroad police chief of the Cooperstown-based New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway recently had his police powers revoked by the New York State Police.

Kansas City Southern has announced the promotion of John E. Foster from assistant chief mechanical officer to vice president and chief mechanical officer for KCS' U.S. operation, effective June 1, 2005.

Two railroad cars filled with automobiles went off the track Thursday afternoon in Montclair, California.

A proposed regional railroad commuter line has received a big boost with the first land purchase for a train station just east of Aurora's border with Naperville.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced that, effective June 1, it had completed the acquisition of substantially all of Rail Management Corporation's rail operations for $243 million in cash and the assumption of $1.7 million of non-interest bearing debt.

Two railroad lines were shut down more than two hours this morning in Clinton, Iowa, after a Union Pacific Railroad car appeared to be leaking extremely low-level radioactive material.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania commuter operator, SEPTA, will continue a construction project on the railroad corridor between Wayne Junction and Glenside Stations this weekend, June 3-5.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) will begin the second half of its one-of-a-kind train trip paralleling the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition through the Pacific Northwest starting Saturday, June 4 in Great Falls, MT.

Alaska Railroad tunnels along the Nenana River Canyon will soon become a distant memory. They are being phased out for safety reasons.

Northwestern Alberta's only rail link into British Columbia has completed its reconstruction and will soon begin shaking off nearly a decade of rust to the glee of local municipalities.

VIA Rail Canada launched its overnight Easterly Class service on the Montreal-Moncton Halifax train, the Ocean, creating a rail journey that immerses travellers into the romance of the Maritime provinces.

When authorities received an emergency alarm Sunday evening (May 29) about an accident at Bergen Turnpike and the CSX railroad tracks, they figured that a motor vehicle had tried to beat the train at the dangerous train crossing.

A committee set up to save a Saskatchewan, Canada, rail line is in talks with the provincial government about getting their help.

The Canadian National Railway Co. is trying to sell one of its Northern Ontario rail lines.

Union Pacific Railroad's growing freight traffic demands over the Sierra summit have derailed a California Capitol Corridor plan to extend passenger service eastward to Reno, Nevada.

Officials with the Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad in northern New Mexico hope the addition of a third locomotive will help attract more tourists this year.

CSX Transportation continues to have trouble running its trains on time, even though it reported record-setting operating income for its rail business in the first quarter.

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited announced that it has made the necessary filings for a normal course issuer bid to purchase for cancellation up to 2,500,000 of its outstanding common shares, or approximately 1.6 per cent of the 158,976,508 common shares outstanding at May 25, 2005.

A collision between a remote controlled train and two standing freight trains in Cumberland, Maryland, halted traffic on CSX Transportations Cumberland Terminal Subdivision Sunday.

Several downtown blocks in Baton Rouge, Louisana, were evacuated when a Canadian National train derailed on Sunday, but no one was injured and no pollutants were released, authorities said.

The National TRANSCAER Task Group, sponsored in part by the American Chemistry Council, has awarded a 2004 TRANSCAER National Achievement Award to Norfolk Southern Corporation.