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WebTech Wireless Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide location-based and fleet Telematics products and services to Canadian Pacific Railway intermodal carriers across Canada.

The United Transportation Union in Lincoln, Nebraska, is claiming the Union Pacific Railroad hiring process is flawed and unfair.

Paul Tellier, ejected from the chief executive suite at Bombardier Inc. this week, is moving back to an office at his previous employer, Canadian National Railway.

The York County Council has denied a motion to allow CSX Corp. to rezone 360 acres along U.S. Highway 21 south of Rock Hill.

CSX Transportation has withdrawn a lawsuit against the town of Walpole, Massachusetts, ending a legal battle that emerged when the Board of Health tried to curb CSX trains from idling -- and belching diesel fumes -- for long periods on the West Street railroad tracks.

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Gov. Ted Kulongoski's budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal biennium included some welcome news for the train advocates who've been fighting to save passenger service between Eugene and Portland, Oregon. The governor's proposal earmarked $9 million for continuation of the twice-daily Amtrak Cascades service between the two cities for the next two years.

Six cars at the end of a 36-car freight train derailed late Thursday night, disrupting rail service and forcing commuters to transfer to buses yesterday to make their connections between San Diego and northern California cities.

Florida's DeSoto County residents in the tiny hamlet of Hull call it "The Pit."

The chief executive of Canadian Pacific Railway said Thursday the entire North American surface transportation infrastructure is in desperate need of more capacity to keep pace with the growth in global trade.

NJ Transit rail commuters won't have to worry about delays this winter when the drawbridge that carries trains to Manhattan across the Hackensack River opens for passing barges.

A new operator for Ohio's Columbiana County Port Authority-owned railroad could be rolling down the tracks as early as next week.

Clear Lake residents woke Wednesday to find their worst nightmare was nothing more than just a bad dream. The San Jacinto Railroad is kaput.

The parent company of East Tennessee Railway (ETRY) has accepted the city and county governments' offer to purchase a 10-mile stretch of rail line for future use.

Kansas City Southern and Grupo TMM, S.A announced that the companies have entered into an amended acquisition agreement whereby TMM will sell its 51 percent voting interest in Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. ("Grupo TFM") to KCS.

Sound Transit has reached a major milestone to provide more commuter rail service between Everett and Seattle, Washington.

Fording Canadian Coal Trust announced that it has been advised of the decision of an arbitrator appointed by the Canadian Transportation Agency to conduct a final offer arbitration between Elk Valley Coal (60% Fording, 40% Teck Cominco Limited and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in respect of the freight rates for westbound shipments of metallurgical coal from the Elkview mine.

New developments have delayed action on the proposed intermodal project by Norfolk Southern Railroad in the New Bohemia section of Prince George, Virginia.

The railroad tunnel under Oregon's Siskiyou Summit remains closed to traffic more than a year after a fire caused portions of it to collapse.

A plan for high-speed trains between Albany and New York City was built on so many false assumptions that a contract between the state and Amtrak is worthless, Amtrak officials contend in new court papers.

Twenty months after announcing a deal, Kansas City Southern on Wednesday said it had reached an amended agreement to acquire control of Mexico's biggest railroad for about $670 million.

The Greenbrier Companies announced that it has entered into two separate agreements for long-term cooperation with the Chinese rail car manufacturer Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works (ZRSW), located in the Hunan province of China.

Taxpayer costs for a proposed high-speed Midwest passenger train network that would include daily service between Chicago and Des Moines have almost doubled from initial projections, state officials said Tuesday.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied a $5,000 fine against Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway in connection with the death of a machinist who was injured on the job in late September.

A final offer arbitration on a rate to ship coal from one of Elk Valley Coal Corporation's mines in southeastern British Columbia to the Port of Vancouver concluded with a ruling in favor of Canadian Pacific Railway's final offer.

If ever there was a shining example of growth, it's the export coal business in 2004.

Amtrak, the nation's financially troubled passenger railroad, must pay back a $100 million loan it received from the government to avert a shutdown in 2002.

Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner

Three cars and an engine of the popular Minnesota Zephyr train derailed Saturday, but there were no injuries.

On Saturday, December 11, at approximately 03:10 PST, Canadian National train E20251-11 derailed near Abrahamson, British Columbia in the Glen Valley on the Yale Subdivision.