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A pair of Canadian Pacific Rail employees were shaken up after finding the cab of the locomotive they were riding in had been hit by a bullet.

Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental mainline was blocked early Friday morning after an intermodal train derailed just east of Chapleau, Ontario.

The Federal Railroad Administration plans to issue regulations that will address the most common human errors that cause train accidents.

On March 3, BNSF Railway's Seattle Commuter Operations Team reached 2,000 days without an injury.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported February 2006 traffic volumes for its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.

Canadian Pacific Railway has announced separate collective agreements with its Rail Traffic Controllers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Rail Canada Traffic Controllers Union, and with members of CPR's Police Service, represented by the Canadian Pacific Police Association.

The Alaska Railroad Corp. is advancing a plan to eliminate train travel through Fort Wainwright Army Post by laying track around the perimeter of the base.

Transport Canada says that the CN Rail must retain a number of special safety requirements while operating on the British Columbia territory.

An early morning CN Rail derailment just north of the Du Quoin, Illinois city limits in Perry County has forced a temporary evacuation of nearly a dozen homes.

RailAmerica, Inc. reported its freight carloads for the month ended February 28, 2006.

At 7:40 a.m. CT on Monday, March 13, 2006, train V-BIRLPC8-12 derailed 15 cars blocking the single main track at Wittenberg, Missouri.

In a bit of irony to the Missouri derailment story today, BNSF Railway Company was recently recognized by GLOVIS America for "Excellence and Dedication in Providing Superior Service in Vehicle Handling" during 2005.

A seven-car derailment in Campbell Hall, New York on Monday, snarled the morning commute for motorists, as the Norfolk Southern train wound up blocking several crossings.

The State of Connecticut has awarded a $12 million contract to a New York-based firm to inspect and refurbish 33 passenger recently purchased rail cars, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Sunday.

A new $200 million shipping center may be constructed in the Kansas City suburb of Gardner, Missouri if BNSF Railway has its way.

North Dakota Governor John Hoeven announced on March 9, that the BNSF Railway was investing more than $20 million in a new facility for Minot, North Dakota.

A number of capacity-enhancing projects are recently completed, or in progress and soon to be completed, on Kansas City Southern - Mexico to handle a projected increase in traffic volumes.

Union Pacific Railroad is spending $32 million this year on track improvements between St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., in an effort to enhance safety and to improve train velocity on this highly used rail corridor.

Amtrak and New Jersey Transit experienced lengthy delays on Friday evening after a mile-wide brush fire swept across the Northeast Corridor in northern New Jersey.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) plans to invest more than $100 million from its 2006 capital program to expand rail capacity in California and to maintain its track, facilities and equipment in good condition.

This week the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a $7.5 million verdict in favor of retired CSX railroad employee, Ray Williams.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced that it has formed a joint venture, Dynamic Composites, LLC, which it will substantially own and control, for the purpose of manufacturing high-strength, long-life composite railroad ties.

At 07:00 CST on March 1, a 60-hour work window began to cut-in the extensions of receiving and departure tracks 33 to 35 at Kansas City Southern's Deramus Yard in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Union Pacific may allow temporary commuter rail service around Salt Lake City, Utah, if negotiations are successful by the Utah Transit Authority.

Service on the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (AMT) Montreal/Delson-Candiac commuter line is to resume on Friday, some three weeks after the derailment of a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train on the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge linking LaSalle and the South Shore shut down the service.

CN Rail has given its Natchez to Brookhaven, Mississippi line a temporary repreive by agreeing to hold off abandoning the route for at least a year.

New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter trains should be up and running by June, thanks in large part to a review by the New Mexico Attorney General.

Officials were working through the morning Tuesday to clear up a railway intersection where a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed, blocking a set of Metra Tracks.

CN Rail had its Albreda Subdivision blocked twice since Friday in two separate and unrelated derailments in British Columbia.

Union Pacific Railroad announced it has selected a location in Tempe, Arizona, for construction of two new staging tracks.