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Rail lines, even abandoned ones, are like dots: soon enough, they connect.

The Canadian Auto Workers has reached a tentative deal for workers at a locomotive manufacturing plant in London, Ontario, which the union says gives workers a chance to keep working for General Motors despite the automaker's sale of the division.

The Alaska Railroad is in line to get a grant worth nearly $25 million from the federal government.

A proposed Atlanta-to-Macon, Georgia commuter rail line is creating a stir in cities along its path.

Ontario Northland and its community partners unveiled the Near North's newest tourist attraction today, the "Dream Catcher Express", an exciting train excursion between North Bay and Temagami, Ontario.

Heavy import volume through the port of Vancouver has forced CPR to introduce a 24-hour operations schedule at its terminal in Montreal, the company said Tuesday.

According to Council of Trade Unions secretary treasurer Randy Gatzka, over 300 union jobs have been lost in British Columbia since CN took over BC Rail in October 2004.

The State of New York has agreed to pay a Schenectady company $5.5 million to kill a project to build seven Turboliner trains that were to serve on a high-speed rail corridor between New York City and Albany.

A federal judge has approved a preliminary class-action settlement between Norfolk Southern and Graniteville, South Carolina, residents who were evacuated after a train wreck and chemical spill.

Friday started a three-day celebration marking the opening of the Railroad Car and Locomotive Restoration Facility at Baltimore, Maryland's B&O Railroad Museum.

A Minnesota incident on Tuesday saw a runaway rail car collide with a locomotive in a South St. Paul yard.

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is urging Amtrak to immediately cut costs.

Federal investigators are nearly finished with their probe of a fatal Amtrak derailment near Flora, Mississippi last year after interviewing dozens of passengers, emergency responders and railroad workers.

Two dozen cars on a northbound Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed in central Alberta on Friday, but no one was injured.

For years, Southern Florida's Tri-Rail has wanted to control dispatching along its 72-mile corridor so commuter trains aren't held up by freight trains.

Commercial use of a new rail line from Caliente to the proposed Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository in Nevada will generate new business opportunities and employment for Nye, Esmeralda, and Lincoln counties, according to a recent study by the Nye County Department of Natural Resources and Federal Facilities.

Canadian Pacific Railway continues to honor the significant role of Chinese railway laborers during railway construction more than 120 years ago.

A new lawsuit seeks to permanently derail the Grand Traverse Dinner Train in Michigan.

Kansas City Southern has elected Paul J. Weyandt as senior vice president finance and treasurer.

Truckers will have better access to the Lachine Terminal, now that Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) is introducing a 24-hour operation schedule at the terminal in Montreal, Quebec.

For more than 80 years, the Atglen-Susquehanna low-grade rail line played a key role in the history of Pennsylvania railroading.

It will be next year before a federal lawsuit that pits the city of Burlington, Iowa, against the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company heads to court.

The regional rail system between downtown Carrollton and downtown Denton, Texas, is one step closer to reality.

Florida East Coast Industries Inc. announced that Vice Chairman Robert F. MacSwain (62) has advised the company he will retire effective June 15, 2005.

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), Travel Michigan and Amtrak are partnering with communities along the Pere Marquette and Blue Water passenger rail routes to boost travel to Michigan-area scenic, dining, shopping and special event destinations by Chicago-area residents.

Norfolk Southern Railroad changed its safety procedures for operating manual switches eight days after the January crash that killed nine in Graniteville.

A bad coupler is believed to have been the cause of a train derailment that forced an evacuation in Solon Springs, Minnesota, last month, according to Union Pacific Railroad officials.

Some Amtrak passenger trains traveling to Portland and Eugene, Oregon, from Wednesday to August 2 may be delayed or canceled because of maintenance work on railroad tracks.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) announced that it has signed an agreement with Rail Management Corporation (RMC) to acquire substantially all of RMC's rail operations for $243 million in cash and the assumption of $1.7 million of non-interest bearing debt.

Signal and communications employees at Canadian National Railway Co. have ratified a new four-year contract with the company.