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Clean up and repairs continue along a stretch of CSX Transportation's Toledo Subdivision, just south of Cridersville, Ohio in northern Auglaize County after a train derailed Sunday morning.

Ohio's Auglaize County Sheriff's Department confirms a CSX Transportation train derailed Sunday morning around 06:20 EST in Cridersville.

A Norfolk Southern Corp. spokesman confirmed Saturday the company has fired the three-man crew of the parked train under scrutiny for possibly failing to correctly set a railroad switch resulting in the deadly Graniteville train collision and chlorine spill last month. Company spokesman Robin Chapman said the parked locomotive's engineer, brakeman and conductor were fired because "they failed to perform their duties properly."

Coal cars from a BNSF Railway train crashed early Friday morning in Benton County, halting train traffic and stranding passengers on an eastbound Amtrak train for four hours. The crash is the second accident in the area in three days and BNSF is investigating a possible link, said Steve Forsberg, railroad spokesman.

After more than a dozen years of work, plans to rebuild the historic Virginia & Truckee Railroad reached a milestone Thursday when bids were opened for the first phase of construction.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has come to terms with the successor of the Penn Central Railroad over the environmental cleanup of the Paoli Rail Yard.

Fording Canadian Coal Trust and Canadian Pacific Railway today said that Elk Valley Coal and CPR continue to be engaged in mediation to attempt to resolve the issues between them concerning the transportation of coal from Elk Valley Coal's mines in southeastern British Columbia to Vancouver area ports for overseas export.

Service on CSX Transportation rail lines appears to have improved during the fourth quarter of 2004 and last month, after congestion had drastically cut back freight deliveries across the eastern U.S. for much of last year.

After spending $20 million in a failed effort to revive a sprawling freight yard on New York City's Brooklyn waterfront, the city is again trying to put the site to use, this time by dividing it into two parts and seeking different companies to operate each part.

A westbound BNSF Railway train rear-ended a second westbound train Thursday afternoon in Wellsville, Kansas, derailing 10 cars - including one that was engulfed in flames - and injuring one crewman.

The Federal Railroad Administration assessed a $298,000 penalty against the CSX Transportation for multiple violations stemming from the South Winton Road (Rochester, New York) crossing accident that killed a Henrietta couple a year ago Thursday.

Motiva Enterprises LLC and Norfolk Southern Corporation announced the opening of a new high-capacity ethanol terminal located at Motiva's petroleum distribution terminal in Sewaren, N.J.

Wabtec Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Rutgers Rail S.p.A. from Rutgers AG for $36 million in cash.

Twenty-seven loaded Norfolk Southern coal hoppers derailed in Roanoke County, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon with a loud screech and a crash "like thunder," witnesses said.

A train derailment south of Quitman, Mississippi, Thursday sent two railroad workers to the hospital.

Canadian National Railway said fuel and grain shipments and commuter service could be disrupted if its Canadian train crews stage a coordinated strike against the company.

Coal cars from BNSF train C-ABMBEN0-28 derailed at 05:30 CST Friday morning in Benton County, Minnesota, halting train traffic and stranding passengers on an eastbound Amtrak train for four hours.

February will see repairs to one of the CSX rail lines running through Bradford County, Florida.

The tail-end of a BNSF Railway train derailed in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, early Wednesday afternoon, spilling three carloads of coal and briefly halting other trains.

There are proposals to increase the number of lanes on Interstate 81 for traffic through Virginia to separate cars and trucks with a tolled truckway, and to increase the amount of rail traffic to cut the number of trucks.

The Illinois Central Railroad has agreed to pay the state of Illinois $50,000 for a fish kill state officials blamed on corn spilled in a stream during a derailment.

The Federal Railroad Administration conducted an emergency inspection during the weekend of the Howard Street Tunnel -- site of a 2001 derailment and fire in downtown Baltimore -- but found no serious safety problems.

A train conductor won an $8.5 million settlement from a railroad after claiming that a 2002 collision between his commuter train and a freight train worsened his alcoholism.

The Bush administration's decision to propose no operating money for Amtrak next year is the starkest signal yet that U.S. transportation planners are serious about dramatically altering or dismantling the troubled rail line, industry experts said on Wednesday.

The Canadian Heartland Training Railway (CHTR), a newly-created, not-for-profit organization supported by Canada's Railway industry, will begin offering practical training solutions in a working railway environment on April 1, 2005.

Some 200 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, residents are returning home Wednesday, more than two days after they were evacuated after a train carrying a dangerous chemical derailed.

The D.C. Council yesterday approved a temporary ban on shipments of hazardous materials through the nation's capital, becoming the first jurisdiction in the nation to halt such cargo in response to the threat of terrorism.

Emergency crews on Tuesday were facing the precarious task of lifting a damaged railroad car out of the Allegheny River in Creighton, Pennsylvania, amid worries that the corrosive chemical leaking from the tanker would release a caustic gas.

Canadian National Railway's main line to the Pacific reopened early Tuesday after crews worked through the night to repair damage caused when a logging truck collided with and derailed VIA Rail's Canadian train.

Decades ago rail service was an important factor in Aroostook County - Fort Fairfield, Maine's, prominence in the potato industry and in the economics of The County. And Town Manager Dan Foster believes it will be again.