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The North Carolina Railroad plans to transform battered train stations into vibrant train stations that improve the communities and the railroad's bottom line.

Starting this week, people will have another way to connect between Milwaukee and Chicago.

Union Pacific Railroad expects to reopen its California "Coast Line" and a rugged desert canyon line northeast of Las Vegas, Nev., for partial service as soon as Jan. 24.

Ontario Northland Railway is ensuring their passengers a little more comfort on the Little Bear, the 'mixed' passenger and freight train which offers service between Cochrane and Moosonee.

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Canadian Pacific Railway announced that a four-year collective agreement has been ratified by train crew employees.

United Transportation Union (UTU) International President Paul C. Thompson and CN President and Chief Executive Officer E. Hunter Harrison jointly issued the following statement:

Twenty-nine illegal immigrants including an 8-month-old were found inside a railroad boxcar, U.S. Border Patrol officials said.

CN and The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) announced today a routing protocol agreement to streamline their exchange of rail traffic at major gateways.

Seventeen cars from the middle of a Canadian National Railway freight train derailed south of Schoolcraft, Michigan Tuesday night, causing a tanker car to spill nonflammable lubricant oil.

The Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) Foundation announced that it has made a pledge to Revitalizing Waterbury, Inc. (RW), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, for the renovation and restoration of the historic railroad station in downtown Waterbury, Vermont.

It's been a rough couple of years for the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.

A Wintersville, Ohio, man was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident shortly after noon Monday at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.'s North Plant in Steubenville, Ohio.

Crews have been repairing a stretch of track damaged at White Earth, North Dakota, when nine cars of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train derailed over the weekend.

David R. Goode, chairman and chief executive officer of Norfolk Southern Corp., has been named 2005 Railroader of the Year by railroad industry trade journal Railway Age.

Train conductors at Canadian National Railway Co. will hold a strike vote after negotiations broke off for a new labor contract, which they blame on a new "corporate America" management style.

Amtrak passenger train service from Sacramento to Denver and Los Angeles remained curtailed Monday as Union Pacific Railroad crews worked to repair damage from last week's storms.

Contract crews and workers on the New England Central Railroad had uprighted four cars and repaired a length of destroyed track, following Sunday's derailment in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Norfolk Southern is investigating the cause of a train derailment in east Knoxville, Tennessee, that dumped nearly 2,000 tons of coal early Tuesday morning.

Freight trains passing through Florida's Volusia and Flagler counties will soon have reflective stripes to help motorists spot them in the dark.

Amtrak and Metrolink trains are finally rolling again after a landslide in San Clemente that shut down all rail traffic earlier this week.

Officials expect to finish cleaning up a 26-car train derailment in rural Waller County, Texas, by early Sunday.

No injuries or chemical spills were reported after a train derailment at 05:00 EST Sunday morning in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Service resumed Saturday morning on the Montana Rail Link line in Laurel, Montana, following derailment the night before of four empty cars, an MRL spokeswoman said.

CSX Transportation officials continued to clear away debris Sunday and investigate the cause of a nine-car train derailment just off of Ross Avenue in Gallatin, Tennessee.

What started as a simple 6-foot-long sinkhole along the curb in the 600 block of South Fifth Street in Palladium, Indiana, has grown into a gaping maw that is about to swallow a railroad overpass.

The Alaska Railroad's new Anchorage operations center cost around $9.5 million, with $6.5 million going to construction, the railroad said.

The state of Wisconsin has bought 37 miles of railway in southeastern Wisconsin for $1.9 million to keep it in operation, Gov. Jim Doyle said Friday.

Canadian National Railway has reached a tentative contract deal with its 2,250 track maintenance workers in Canada, the union and company said on Friday.

As expected, the Metra board has voted to delay purchase of more than 150 rail cars.

Amtrak's California Zephyr will go only as far west as Denver for at least the next week because of storms in the Rocky and Sierra mountain ranges.