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A railroad trestle replacement that had been expected to snarl traffic in Leeds on Tuesday has been postponed.

Union Pacific recently hired a new safety director in San Antonio, Texas, and this week he will face frightened residents demanding improvements.

A railroad bridge across Quantico Creek to help ease commuter train traffic between Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., is scheduled to be finished in early 2007.

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has announced the appointment of a new VP-Sales & Marketing, effective December 1, 2004.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) has begun the grading, bridge, and signal work for adding a second main track to its route between Milan and Attica, Kansas.

Canadian Pacific Railway has installed "smart" technology that can predict failure in wheel bearings based on distinct sounds emitted by distressed bearings.

Rising insurance costs and other factors have prompted Marcia Pilgeram, president of Montana Rockies Rail Tours, to suspend operations in 2005.

As part of the new consolidated training center announced by CSXT, the railroad says it will close its engineer training school in Cumberland, Maryland.

When federal labor officials approved binding arbitration for Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad workers, union leaders cheered the news, calling it the quickest route to a new and better contract.

Amtrak has announced that the Three Rivers train will continue to operate between New York City's Penn Station and Chicago, Illinois, via Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, through March 6, 2005.

After more than seven months of planning, the 2004 CPR Holiday Train is ready to raise awareness, money and food in support of hunger relief in Canada.

MMA is joining other railroads and industries by introducing locomotives that can be controlled trackside by train crews using wireless

International recording artists, the Moffatts, are back together and will be performing their first live shows on Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train, which will again be spreading holiday cheer in support of local food banks, this year.

CSX Transportation has experienced a line-blocking derailment on its James River Subdivision in Big Island, Virginia.

With rail industry projections pointing to the need for thousands of new employees over the next few years, CSX Transportation has consolidated in Atlanta all of its training for front-line employees who operate trains and maintain railroad assets and infrastructure.

The City of Ottawa, Ontario has made an offer to buy a major north-south rail corridor from Canadian Pacific for $12.6 million.

A CSX Transportation New York derailment on Friday sent a conductor to the hospital with injuries and left eight cars off the rails.

Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) has awarded a contract to Union Switch & Signal for the implementation of a vital (fail-safe) Positive Train Control (PTC) system.

CN and the United Transportation Union announced the ratification of a new collective agreement by the UTU members working on the railway's 1,200 mile Northern Quebec Territory Rail (NQT).

Norfolk Southern Corporation plans to spend $938 million in 2005 for capital improvements to its railroad operations and subsidiaries.

Rail improvements proposed in New Hampshire would allow Amtrak's Downeaster service to add a fifth daily round-trip train between Portland and Boston and boost revenue, but New Hampshire officials may block a $1.2 million federal grant for the project.

Todd Havens runs his own little railroad west of Spokane, driving his own locomotive up and down a 4.9-mile stretch of track called the Geiger spur. The short line peels off the main Burlington Northern Santa Fe line, runs through Fairchild Air Force Base, and reaches several businesses in Airway Heights.

Construction giant Skanska AB said Wednesday it received a contract worth $126.6 million from Amtrak to renovate ventilation and safety facilities in the East River Tunnels in New York City.

One of the two trains that collided head-on in Pasco County on Monday might have run through a signal light in heavy fog, investigators say.

Canadian National Railway has renamed its underwater rail tunnel between Ontario and Michigan after Paul Tellier, its chief executive from 1992 to 2002.

All aboard the Toyota Tundra express!

Cost overruns and change orders are affecting the Connecticut Department of Transportation railroad projects as MetroNorth commuters demand improved service amid rising fares.

More than 150 years ago, powerful iron horses plowed through the engine house in downtown Burlington to be serviced by the skilled workers who lived there before carrying their loads of freight and passengers across the state and out into the world.

More detailed information about Monday morning

A federal regulator has approved Kansas City Southern's request to acquire majority interest in a short-line railroad linking its own system with Mexico's biggest railroad.