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BNSF Railway Co. said its economic development efforts led to $1.24 billion in investments and more than 3,300 jobs in 2004, the company said Monday. The company was instrumental in the location of 144 new or expanded facilities, including ethanol facilities in Iowa, Nebraska and New Mexico; lumber yards and transload facilities in Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Oregon, Montana and Texas; and consumer and perishables products warehouses in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, Utah and Washington.

CSX Transportation reported that at least fourteen coal hoppers and three locomotives derailed just outside of Washington, D.C. in Croom, Maryland, on Tuesday.

Construction of a high-level bridge that would let Florida's Tri-Rail commuter trains soar over the South Fork of the New River without waiting for boats has stopped in its tracks in a dispute over bridge standards.

Legislators around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, continue to pursue funding for a study associated with the operation of a commuter rail line from Arnold to Pittsburgh.

Some passenger trains serving North Carolina will be disrupted because of a fire Monday morning on a Norfolk Southern freight train near Hillsborough.

An early morning train derailment near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in East Deer Township has emergency personnel concerned about a hazardous chemical that the cars were carrying.

Kansas City Southern said today that it posted a fourth-quarter profit as shipments of paper and other wood products surged.

VIA Rail's westbound passenger train, #1, the Canadian, has derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, after striking a logging truck.

CN train M39131-28 derailed on Saturday, January 29, at 09:05 EST near Kerwood, Ontario, on the Strathroy Subdivision.

VIA Rail apologized Saturday after nearly 400 passengers on two trains bound for Toronto were stranded on board overnight for up to 10 hours because of mechanical breakdowns.

Effective today, CSX Transportation (CSXT), the rail unit of CSX Corporation, has issued an operational bulletin instructing train crews to discontinue regular train horn use from 99th Street in Chicago to 87th Street in Evergreen Park.

BNSF Railway Company announced it was named 2004 Partner of the Year by the world's largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot.

Norfolk Southern named five people to senior positions in marketing, strategic planning and operations, effective immediately.

Canadian Pacific Railway said on Thursday its fourth quarter profit fell 26 percent, as it took a charge for an environmental cleanup and recorded lower foreign-exchange gains on long-term debt.

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Thursday charged a man with 11 counts of murder, one for every person who died in a violent three-train wreck that they say he caused by driving his Jeep onto commuter railroad tracks in a botched suicide attempt.

Struggling for more than a year to catch up to a surging economy, Union Pacific Railroad plans to charge more for its services and turn other business away.

There's extremely limited New Jersey Transit and Amtrak rail service in and out of New York City because a catenary wire is down east of Secaucus Junction on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

Teamsters Canada said on Thursday that locomotive engineers at Canadian National Railway Co. have approved a strike mandate, although the government has put any job action on hold.

In 2005, KCSR plans to invest $3.5 million to upgrade its track from just east of Vicksburg, Miss. to the Mississippi River, a distance of approximately 11 miles.

Norfolk Southern Corporation reported record fourth-quarter net income of $264 million or $0.65 per diluted share, compared with $52 million or $0.13 per diluted share for fourth-quarter 2003.

A broken rail caused a freight train to derail and spill hazardous cargo near Tamaroa in southern Illinois two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Tuesday.

Prosperity could be chugging its way toward a business at a closed military base.

The BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced that it has launched a $17.5 million track and bridge maintenance project on its main line between Fresno and Richmond, Calif.

Amtrak says a train derailment north of Union Station in Washington last week was caused by worn-out switches in the track bed.

At least nine people have been killed and scores of others injured in what reads like a bad sequence of events from a fiction novel.

Last week, Kansas City Southern agreed to purchase 30 new SD70ACe locomotives from the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation (GM) to be delivered in fourth quarter 2005.

Federal rail regulators have given the green flag for Canadian Pacific Railway to stop running trains on a competitor's tracks between Buffalo and Binghamton, New York.

Norfolk Southern has filed a lawsuit asking 10 companies to preserve the railroad cars and other evidence in the train derailment and chlorine gas leak that caused nine deaths earlier this month in Graniteville, S.C.

Canadian National Railway Co.reported a sharp jump in fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, crediting recent acquisitions that boosted revenues to a record level.

Analysts and Internet message boards focused on Kansas City Southern speculate that the railroad may be ripe for a coupling after it secures controlling interest in Mexico's largest railway. But, KC Southern spokesman Bill Galligan said, "we are not in the market to sell this railroad." Not yet, anyway.