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Pioneer Railcorp, the Peoria, Illinois-based, short-line railroad company, is going private, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

RMI, the largest independent provider of accurate, reliable, comprehensive and secure rail information services to the transportation industry, readies itself for 2005 following an impressive year of new customer acquisition throughout the United States and the deployment of an increased scope of technology services built around its "Paperless Railroad" initiative.

Union Pacific crews are working on railroad tracks damaged by flood waters in Lincoln County, Nevada, and will begin removing 20 to 25 derailed cars as early as today, a company spokesman said.

Twelve Canadian Pacific Railway cars derailed in Seven Persons, Alberta, spilling corn onto a farmer's field yesterday morning.

A downed electrical wire and a broken track switch caused delays yesterday for thousands of New Jersey Transit and Amtrak passengers trying to get to or leave from Pennsylvania Station, officials said.

Federal railroad investigators and others looking into the deadly Graniteville train wreck are tight-lipped about the actions of a train crew who some experts say likely are at the center of the investigation.

Two derailments of Union Pacific trains occurred within the past week.

RailAmerica, Inc. reported its freight carloads for the month and year ended December 31, 2004.

A computer glitch affecting a major freight railroad stalled trains in six states and the District of Columbia for about 90 minutes Wednesday and delayed service on about a dozen commuter lines.

Shipping companies such as Nippon Yusen K.K. are searching from Alaska to Mexico for ports able to handle goods from Asia because bottlenecks in Southern California are delaying cargo by as much as a week.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said its North American traffic increased 19.6 percent in December, to 53,817 carloads, compared to the last month of 2003.

Sullivan County, New York, doesn

About half the 5,400 residents of Graniteville, S.C., returned home Thursday, a week after they fled a chlorine cloud caused by a train wreck.

Union Pacific announced that damage from the massive storm that hit California and Nevada during the past week will reduce the company's rail capacity between the Los Angeles Basin and points farther east by about one third for an extended period.

Norfolk Southern is expected to lease a portion of its East End Shops in Roanoke to Illinois-based FreightCar America, which will build aluminum rail cars here, sources close to the deal have told The Roanoke Times.

There is a new push underway to return VIA Rail passenger service between Winnipeg and Sudbury, Ontario.

A number of cars in a Canadian National Railway freight derailed on Winnipeg, Manitoba's south side on Wednesday morning.

The series of storms that hit California this week is having significant impact on Union Pacific's operations around the Los Angeles Basin, through the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the rest of California.

Some rail shippers around Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, contend that a tentative agreement between the SEDA Council-of-Government

The Federal Railroad Administration plans to advise all freight railroads on Tuesday to re-examine their procedures for operating manual switches like the one that is suspected in the derailment of a chlorine train near here last week, a spokesman for the Transportation Department said Monday.

Canadian National Railway Co. sought on Monday to downplay concern about a possible strike by three Canadian unions, saying it remained optimistic a negotiated settlement can be reached.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) has named a trio of new Regional Vice Presidents.

Locomotive builder General Motors Electro-Motive has been sold.

The Federal Railroad Administration on Tuesday attributed a second derailment to the cause that is suspected in the chlorine tank car wreck in Aiken, South Carolina, a hand-operated switch left in the wrong position.

Union Pacific Corp. said late Tuesday that mudslides and deep water had closed five of its six rail lines out of the Los Angeles Basin, bringing its rail service to a virtual standstill and posing potentially big problems for Southern California shippers and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Kansas City Southern and Grupo TMM, S.A. announced today that the companies have entered into an amended acquisition agreement.

While investigators focus on an apparent switching error in the wreck of Norfolk Southern Train 192, railroad unions and workplace experts point to a range of related safety issues surrounding the deadly accident, where nine people were killed by a massive chlorine gas leak.

A CSX Transportation freight train collided with a stationary CSXT train Tuesday morning around 05:00 EST in Banks, Alabama.

An Amtrak train derailed in Colorado after running into a pickup-sized boulder, authorities said.

OmniTRAX has assumed operation of a 160-mile cluster of Burlington Northern Santa Fe branch lines in Washington and British Columbia.