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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently approved a $500,000 study of the Park Avenue tunnel that leads into Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.

VIA Rail's E&N Dayliner passenger train went off the tracks just north of Victoria, British Columbia, on Monday morning.

General Motors Corp. will sign an agreement this week to sell its money-losing locomotive unit to two private U.S. equity groups, sources familiar with the negotiations said on Tuesday.

VIA Rail Canada wishes to advise the public that due to technical difficulties and extreme weather conditions in Northern Manitoba, Train 692 of January 8th, from Churchill to Winnipeg has been cancelled.

Charles "Chuck" Baumberger, a partner at Rossman Baumberger Reboso & Spier, P.A., a Miami law firm nationally known for its work in railroad litigation, said today that Norfolk Southern appears to be responsible for Thursday morning's train collision and derailment in Graniteville, S.C., and will be legally liable to the victims who were killed or catastrophically injured.

Rockland County, New York Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef wants to know why the county hasn't heard from CSX Transportation in months about safety issues along the railroad's 23 miles of tracks.

The Dallas-to-Fort Worth, Texas, Trinity Railway Express might one day be able to serve residential areas in southwest Fort Worth.

At one time in jeopardy, a vital element of Bloomer, Wisconsin's current and future economic viability was given new life as Progressive Rail - operators of the 'short-line' Wisconsin Northern Railroad - began operations on November 23 to provide rail service to Bloomer.

Railstar Corporation of Cape Vincent, N.Y., assumed operations of the Colorado Historical Society's Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park and will continue offering the popular Georgetown Loop Railroad train ride.

KCSR has begun a six-week, 17-mile track maintenance program in Vicksburg, Mississippi, upgrading the line from Bovay, Louisiana to Smiths, MS.

The head of England's National Railway Museum in York, England, Andrew Scott, is going to China this weekend to travel on the last main line in the world operated by steam locomotives.

A monster storm that had it all - blizzards, floods, mudslides and even a tornado - ripped through California and northern Nevada over the weekend, collapsing buildings, shutting roads and airports, derailing a train and taking lives.

Crews worked Monday to neutralize and remove chlorine gas still leaking from a railcar damaged in a train wreck that killed nine people last week and injured hundreds more.

A large sinkhole that opened up over the weekend forced Amtrak to close a major stretch of railway yesterday, resulting in the cancellation of all trains traveling between San Luis Obispo and Los Angeles.

Authorities are still trying to determine what caused a CSX Transportation freight train to derail Saturday night in Alabama.

A Prepared Statement from Robert D. Jamison, Acting Administrator Federal Railroad Administration was issued in reference to Norfolk Southern's SC derailment.

Funeral services for the West Columbia engineer whose Norfolk Southern train was involved in Thursday

Workers continued the slow and dangerous task Sunday of capping off a railroad car leaking toxic chlorine gas as investigators looked for the cause of the crash that derailed the train.

Canadian National Railway is training 1,000 managers to maintain service in the event of a strike this month by as many as 6,500 train-crew members, according to a Bloomberg report. A strike by the United Transportation Union (UTU) could come as early as Jan. 20, and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference could walk out eight days later without an agreement.

A shelter-in-place notice has been lifted after two railcars carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in southeast Houston, Texas on Saturday.

A 20-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad train derailed in northern Lassen County, California, on Saturday morning, leaving a conductor and engineer with minor injuries, authorities said.

Waynesburg, Pennsylvania's Senior Center is organizing a rail journey through eastern Canada.

Aiken County officials have confirmed that nine people have died and several people are still missing following a train wreck and subsequent chlorine gas leak in Graniteville, South Carolina.

Christopher Seeling, 28, was the train's engineer at the Graniteville rail accident.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants Baltimore to make some changes in the wake of a huge CSX Transportation derailment in 2001 that crippled the city for days.

The death toll has risen to eight persons in South Carolina after a Norfolk Southern train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train early Thursday.

CSX Transportation (CSXT) today announced that it will lease a 158-mile segment of its track from Grafton to Cowen, W. Va., on former B&O territory, to a subsidiary of the Pittsburg, Ks.-based Watco Companies, Inc.

Wabtec Corporation announced that its MotivePower subsidiary has signed a $12.7 million contract to build commuter locomotives for the Mid-Region Council of Governments in Albuquerque, N.M., which is planning to initiate commuter rail service in the region.

There's something special about the mahogany paneling and brass fittings in a vintage railroad dining car. And when the occasion is special as well - the Kentucky Derby, the Masters Tournament - railroad giant CSX Corp. has often turned to the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad to supplement its own rolling VIP accommodations.

A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train early Thursday, killing the engineer aboard the northbound train and injuring at least 70, authorities said. Decontamination sites were treating people exposed to fumes.