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Canadian National Railway Co. says it can't understand why the Western Grain Elevator Association blasted it earlier this week for providing the grain handler with poor service and late deliveries.

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury verdict awarding $2.3 million to a former Norfolk Southern Railway Co. worker whose knee was badly injured in a railyard accident.

The subject of the BNSF Railway's future double track expansion through the Kiowa, Kansas, area arises at meetings, in coffee shops and among curious landowners.

The Amtrak board of directors approved the terms of a contract Thursday that will lease eight locomotives to the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

The Western Grain Elevator Association said Tuesday it's being let down by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Canadian National Railway Co., the rail carriers who transport its crops top market, and want the two to address its concerns.

Relocating railroad tracks and a rail yard out of Cheyenne is not feasible at this time, according to a study.

A 39-year-old man obsessed with trains has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for trying to steal a Long Island Rail Road locomotive.

Four Union Pacific railroad cars left the rails Wednesday night in Guadalupe County, Texas, temporarily closing FM 78.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is working with CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern to make $7.5 million worth of improvements on a 39-mile stretch of railroad between Mebane and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Following a brief disruption in service due to the closure of a Canadian National rail bridge west of Charny, Quebec, on Tuesday, VIA Rail Canada's passenger train service between Montreal and Quebec City will resume normal operations beginning today.

Union Pacific Railroad announced that it is basing its first low-emissions diesel-hybrid locomotive in California to help reduce air emissions in cooperation with federal, state and local environmental agencies.

Enter the Amtrak Picture Our Train 2006 Wall Calendar Photo Contest and your photograph could adorn the walls of train lovers everywhere.

Two hundred gallons of a flammable liquid leaked from a train that derailed near Los Angeles, forcing about 300 people to be evacuated from their homes, authorities said Tuesday. No injuries were reported.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has patched up its differences with a firm controlled by Fording Canadian Coal Trust to sign a five-year pact to transport B.C. coal.

NJ Transit trains ran through stop signals six times in the past five months, an alarming spate of violations that has prompted the agency to begin retraining all 419 engineers, officials said.

A federal judge said yesterday that he wants to broker a compromise between the D.C. government and CSX Transportation in the dispute over rail shipments of hazardous materials through the city.

As a result of spring thaw, an ice flow struck a railway bridge located on CN Rail's Drummondville Subdivision approximately 1 mile west of Charny, Quebec.

Electric power lines that provide power to trains entering and leaving Washington Union Station lost power about 05:30 EDT Tuesday. Amtrak train #180 leaving Washington en route to New York caused damage to the wires as it was departing.

Canadian National Railway Co. says it has placed orders for 75 high-horsepower locomotives from two builders, with options to buy 75 more.

Kansas City Southern's shareholders will profit from the company's acquisition of a controlling stake in Mexico's busiest railroad -- and not just in the long run. That's the apparent consensus of company officials, analysts and stockholders.

The Montana Wheat & Barley Committee is claiming that the state's primary rail shipper is overcharging farmers with high fuel fees - gouging in the eyes of the group's chairman.

An alert Norfolk Southern train crew spotted a truck in the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg , Pa. , and helped rescue its 66-year-old driver.

BNSF Logistics, LLC announced the appointments of Shannon Boyd as director of integration and Mark Richards as controller. Boyd and Richards both report to Eric Wolfe, vice president and general manager.

Norfolk Southern Railway has been targeted in a Federal Employers

Due to continuing increases in traffic levels, Norfolk Southern Corporation said it will acquire 50 more new locomotives than initially planned in 2005.

The National Academy of Railroad Sciences at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, has been selected as the technical training provider of choice for employees of all railroads that belong to the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed Sunday morning on the Washington state side of the Columbia River Gorge, injuring 26 people.

State Rep. Mike Krusee is setting the wheels in motion for the Union Pacific Railroad to relocate its freight lines in Central Texas, making way for a proposed 110-mile commuter rail system from Georgetown to San Antonio.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out a $662,268 judgment against CN Rail's Illinois Central Railroad in a lawsuit over a car-train accident at a crossing in DeSoto County.

Railroad investigators have completed their analysis into the cause of a Tennessee train derailment in January.