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Work on a commuter rail line between downtown Nashville, and Lebanon is well underway and now the startup Music City Star now has a boss. Bill Farquhar has been hired as commuter rail director for the Regional Transportation Authority.

Progress Energy Inc. Friday said it agreed to sell its rail-services unit to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s private equity arm for $405 million.

Vermont Rail System officials say the Bellows Falls Tunnel can accommodate larger, double-stacked railroad cars without being altered.

Metro-North Railroad President Peter Cannito told commuters Wednesday night the New Haven Line is out of short-term solutions for its problems and the only way to improve service for Connecticut to provide funding for new rail cars.

California authorities no longer believe a man who caused a train wreck near Los Angeles was attempting to commit suicide.

A CSX Transportation engineer was arrested on Thursday after being accused of refusing to cooperate with police after a van collided with his train in West Virginia.

Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. isn't the only rail company under Justice Department scrutiny.

Union Pacific railroad said Thursday that a chemical-based gas inside a fuel tank caused the explosion that killed a worker earlier this week at its machine shop in Council Bluffs.

Canadian Pacific Railway and the CAW-TCA Canada announced Thursday that they have reached agreement in principle to renew collective agreements governing approximately 2,600 employees who maintain and repair locomotives and rail cars.

A train derailment early Wednesday morning in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, caused minor local traffic problems, but temporarily brought Canadian National's main line to Chicago to a standstill.

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) said that it filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asking the Court to declare invalid the District of Columbia's ban on the transportation of hazardous materials, D.C. Bill 16- 77, and to block its implementation. CSXT also expects to seek a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the measure shortly.

A new locomotive refueling station has sprouted a second leak over the main water supply for the Spokane, Washington, area, and Kootenai County officials want the facility closed until problems are solved. The BNSF Railway refueling station, which opened in the northern Idaho town of Hauser last September despite years of opposition from local residents, has shut down one of its three high-speed refueling stations.

Locomotive No. 278 and its tender and caboose came out of the rain and snow this winter, but future plans for the railroad display near Morrow Point Dam won't be finalized until officials at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park receive their budget later in the month. After more than a year of discussion with the city of Montrose, Colorado, - the original owner of the locomotive and caboose - park rangers placed a tarp over the railroad display in early January to prevent further water damage.

BNSF Railway says the antitrust arm of the Department of Justice is looking into prices it charges for shipping coal.

Vapors from an unknown source are believed to have ignited sparks from a grinder, causing an explosion that killed one man and injured three others in the Union Pacific roundhouse at Council Bluff, Iowa, Tuesday.

Michigan's historic AuSable River railroad trestle was destroyed Friday night by the chain reaction of a train derailment.

The state of New York should withhold more than $1 million in a contract to build faster trains for the troubled Amtrak rail system because the spending wasn't properly documented, a state audit released Tuesday stated.

Five railroad cars carrying fertilizer derailed on a siding Monday afternoon in Crescent City, Illinois.

The City Council is prepared to open negotiations aimed at keeping the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad operating from the city-owned rail yard this summer. The railroad lost its right to use the rail yard when it defaulted on its lease with the city in December.

States would have to start paying for intercity passenger train service if they want railroads to stop at stations within their borders under a Bush administration plan for Amtrak being pitched again to a resistant Congress.

An Amtrak spokesman said train traffic is moving normally in the northeast corridor Thursday morning, despite an accidental injury to an Amtrak worker in Havre de Grace.

A northbound Amtrak passenger train hit a tractor-trailer hauling frozen strawberries in Oxnard on Monday, causing some minor injuries and snarling rush-hour traffic, authorities said.

Virginia Railway Express says all Fredericksburg Line trains were delayed one hour or more Monday, because of speed restrictions south of the Quantico, Virginia, station.

Oil company Ultramar Ltd. said Monday it has plans to build a $200-million pipeline from its refinery near Quebec City to its distribution terminal in Montreal.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2004 was $7.2 million, compared to net income of $7.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2003.

An explosion at Union Pacific Railroad's Council Bluffs, Iowa, rail yard has killed one person.

In an effort to lure South Floridians out of their cars, Broward County has become the first in the region to create a countywide roadmap for development along Tri-Rail and major bus routes. The new Transit-Oriented Development land-use designation was cleared by the state last month.

A stretch of Central Texas railroad has been reopened as officials continue to investigate what caused a seven-car derailment that shut down the line over the weekend, Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said Sunday.

Halifax longshoremen unloaded on CN Saturday, blaming the rail line's "disgraceful service" for container line Maersk Sealand's decision to leave Halifax.

Union Pacific Railroad is spending $8.4 million this year on track improvements between Rush Springs and Waurika, Oklahoma.