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America's burgeoning imports are literally piling up in a St. Paul, Minnesota, rail yard, and attempts by the yard's owner to relieve the congestion are getting freight customers hot under the collar.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company announced its results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2004.

Kansas City Southern shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve the company's years-long effort to buy controlling interest in the parent company for Mexico's busiest railroad.

Two men were dead and one railroad police officer was wounded in a foiled kidnapping plot Sunday on Chicago's South Side that ended when an off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed one of the kidnappers, police said.

CN Rail intermodal train Q14891-22 derailed near Edmunston, New Brunswick, on the railroad's Pelletier Subdivision Thursday.

Amtrak train schedules will temporarily change from Sunday, April 3, to June 23, because of maintenance work being done on CSX Transportation-owned tracks in Florida.

Airlines might be the most vocal, but they aren't the only industry hit by soaring fuel prices.

Canadian National Railway Co. and the union representing its signal and communications employees signed a tentative contract Friday, the company said.

Fire caused heavy damage Friday to a CSX Transportation locomotive in West Newton, Pennsylvania.

CN Rail and Norfolk Southern Railway announced Monday a structured routing protocol to streamline their exchange of rail traffic at major gateways.

Rights of way held by Florida East Coast Industries in Miami-Dade County could be critical to the development of a commuter line, the company's incoming president said Tuesday.

The CAW-TCA Canada and Canadian Pacific Railway announced that a three-year collective agreement with 2,600 employees who repair and service locomotives and freight cars has been ratified.

An ambitious project to improve and expand passenger rail service throughout the Midwest would have a partner in the federal government for the first time under the Bush Administration's proposal to reform Amtrak, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said during a news conference at the Detroit railroad station.

Saskatchewan police have charged a truck driver after his semi-trailer crashed into a train near Regina, sending 25 cars hurtling off the rails.

An investigation is under way into another case of a stolen propane tank put on some railroad tracks in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Five railroad cars derailed about 13:00 EST Wednesday near the 8100 block of Nelson Street in New Haven, Indiana.

Commuters using the Tri-Rail trains throughout South Florida were delayed this morning -- by Mother Nature.

An Amtrak spokesperson says that an engine problem on Amtrak train 190, en-route to Boston from Washington, halted the train on the tracks in New Haven, Connecticut on Thursday morning.

The Canadian government has named two mediators to help Canadian National Railway Co. and the union representing signal and communications employees reach a deal and avoid a strike called for midnight tomorrow.

The Greenbrier Companies announced that its Gunderson Rail Services subsidiary has acquired from GE two railcar repair facilities located in Dothan, AL and Hodge, LA.

Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) is pleased to announce that it has recently purchased three locomotives to add to its fleet.

CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT), operator of the largest rail network in the eastern United States, announced that in 2004 the company participated in 145 industrial development projects, attracting approximately $1.5 billion in investment capital and helping to create more than 4,500 new jobs in 17 states.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced a new instantaneous method for carload customers to obtain interline prices at BNSF.com.

Appalachian & Ohio Railroad will begin operating 117 miles of leased CSX Transportation track between Grafton and Cowen, plus five short branch lines, on Friday.

Hunter Harrison, chief executive of Canadian National Railway Co., picked up a bonus of $3.5 million US for his part in helping the railway achieve record earnings in 2004.

The State of Maryland says it will no longer help fund the tourist train.

Canadian Pacific Railway announced that track maintenance employees have ratified a three-year collective agreement reached with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference - Maintenance of Way Employees Division.

Crews are cleaning-up following a Canadian Pacific Railway train derailment in the East Kootenays of British Columbia.

Four CSX Transportaiton rail cars derailed in Buffalo, New York's, Frontier Yard Sunday morning, causing about 1,000 gallons of propylene tetramer to spill, CSX officials said.

The nation's capital will fight the federal government and the freight-rail industry in court this week over whether the city can ban freight trains from carrying dangerous materials just four blocks from the U.S. Capitol.