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Four cars of a CSX Transportation freight train derailed early Sunday in Orange County, Florida, along Orange Avenue near Landstreet Road, damaging two vehicles.

King County, Washington, has entered into exclusive negotiations with BNSF Railway to buy a 47-mile rail corridor stretching from Renton to Snohomish County for use as a trail.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company reported its results for the first quarter of 2005.

RailPower Technologies Corp., announced that former BNSF Chairman, President and CEO, Robert D. Krebs, and former Federal Railroad Administrator, Jolene M. Molitoris, have been appointed to RailPower's Board of Directors.

Canadian National Railway Co.'s unionized locomotive engineers in most of Canada will go on strike on Wednesday after contract negotiations broke off, their union said on Friday.

Crews worked Friday in northeast Houston, Texas, to upright several rail cars loaded with highly flammable liquid petroleum gas.

Rail service in and out of New York improved for Friday's evening rush hour, NJ Transit said, but trains continued to move very slowly across a fire-damaged bridge between Newark and Manhattan on Saturday.

Friday the 13th was probably unlucky for a BNSF Railway train that derailed at 29th Street just after midnight Thursday.

Due to a sink hole under the rail bed on the E&N Railway on the Victoria Subdivision, VIA Rail Canada's passenger train service operating between Courtenay and Victoria is temporarily disrupted.

Border Patrol agents say they found 12 illegal immigrants in a hiding place they hadn't seen used in some time

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported traffic volume increases for April 2005 on its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.

The Greenbrier Companies announced that is has received an order for 1,950 intermodal wells from TTX Company for delivery in 2006.

A rail link between Alaska and Canada, proposed as a faster way to transport natural resources, would also enable the United States to support anti-ballistic missile silos and military bases, a new study says.

The clock is ticking for Tweetsie Railroad theme park officials to determine their future plans.

NuTech Solutions, a leader in the commercialization of advanced predictive analytics, has helped improve service planning efficiency for one of the largest railroad networks in North America, operated by BNSF Railway Company (BNSF).

New Jersey Transit's plan to revive passenger train service on tracks in Bergen County that could eventually connect all the way to Manhattan ran into an unexpected delay Wednesday.

General Electric Company Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt has announced ecomagination, a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.

Two Sioux Falls-area lawmakers say the Legislature should have been consulted before a big chunk of state-owned railroad line was sold to BNSF Railway Co.

BNSF Railway is considering building an intermodal shipment center in Gardner, Kansas, along its major transcontinental route, eyeing properties between the New Century AirCenter and Interstate 35.

Twenty-one cars on a Union Pacific freight train derailed in East Texas early Wednesday, damaging a bridge over a small creek and forcing rail traffic to be rerouted.

Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad could begin constructing its $2 billion expansion project next year, and Winona, Minnesota, area officials are waiting on word of how many more trains that will bring.

Cracks on the brake disc rotors of Amtrak's Acela Express trains were detected as long as three years ago but the railroad was never notified, Amtrak's inspector general said Wednesday.

Maine Yankee Power has had the Maine Eastern Railroad remove 26 railcars used for transporting low level radioactive waste from a siding in Topsham, Maine.

A few years ago, Canadian Pacific Railway was considering selling its rail line that runs through Washington and Essex counties in Upstate New York, the prospect of which concerned local businesses and government leaders.

The Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad will uproot itself from its namesake city in Maine next month with few regrets.

CN Rail has announced the formation of CN WorldWide, a wholly owned subsidiary that will offer international freight forwarding services between Europe and North America.

The Burlington Northern Sante Fe Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Tom and Danielle Aman Foundation to help in the restoration of the historic depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Some 200 children and adults escaped serious injury in Utah Tuesday when an empty runaway railcar struck a parked Heber Valley Railroad train hosting a tour for students from schools in Salt Lake and Carbon counties.

Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay a $14,000 fine and clean up an Elko, Georgia, stream that was damaged during the removal of a derailed train and its cargo of automobiles.

An Idaho judge on Monday allowed a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. locomotive fueling depot to reopen, even though the facility has leaked fuel into the main drinking water supply for Spokane and surrounding communities.