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Cleanup continued through cold, snowy conditions Monday at the site of a train derailment near Chillicothe, Iowa, that blocked a road with wreckage and spilled coal.

Ontario Northland Railway's Cochrane to Moosonee, Ontario 'Little Bear' mixed train was delayed Monday after one of the train's locomotives derailed.

The U.S. Coast Guard has approved a second extension of the temporary operation status for the Coos Bay Railroad Bridge, extending the closure from Nov. 29 through Dec. 17.

The decision by two railway companies to divert some freight traffic around Chicago could be the first of more moves to bypass North America's largest rail hub if the region's gridlocked system isn't overhauled, industry executives said Friday.

An attempt by V and S Railway to block the sale of the Nevada Northern Railway right of way to the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation has failed.

Trucking and rail companies are feeling a strain this holiday shipping season as increased volume, spurred by an improving economy, meets constrained capacity.

Already under the microscope for a series of San Antonio accidents, Union Pacific was involved in two train derailments only moments apart early Sunday in two city switching yards.

A CSX Transportation conductor was killed early Monday morning when two trains collided head-on in eastern Pasco County, Florida.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed Sunday night north of Marion, Arkansas, leaving a portion of Highway 77 closed Monday.

Tri-Rail service will be affected beginning Wednesday because of signal installation and testing in a new section of track, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority said Friday. There will be 20- to 30-minute train delays from Wednesday through at least Dec. 8, officials said. Delays will be announced at stations and on trains.

It's unclear why a CSX Transportation train hauling a load of coal from Nashville to Chattanooga derailed in La Vergne, Tennesse on Friday afternoon, but the railway will work continuously until the damage is repaired and the coal removed, a CSXT spokeswoman said.

Railroad crews finished clearing the tracks Friday following a slow-motion Thanksgiving Day collision that derailed parts of two trains.

Canada's National Post reports that Canadian Pacific Railway may invest up to $500-million in infrastructure upgrades across Canada.

The union representing Canadian National Railway workers is upset over the discovery of a hidden camera at Canadian National's Transcona wheel shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In its fourth annual trip, Kansas City Southern's Holiday Express train will bring Santa Claus and his elves to visit 29 communities in eight states throughout the KCS system, including Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois and Kansas.

Tri-Rail is hoping its $334 million double-tracking project will lead to improved service and increased ridership.

Metro-North Railroad is inviting riders to bid farewell to a train on December 5, when it will offer a farewell tour for its oldest trains, the ACMU 1100s.

Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) says several factors, including human error, contributed to a Canadian Pacific Railway derailment near Belleville, Ontario on Feb. 21, 2003. Hundreds of homes were evacuated when two trains collided, one of them carrying liquid petroleum gas. The collision led to a massive explosion that sent several of the tanker cars into the air. The safety boards report says it was a faulty bearing on one of the CP Rail cars that ultimately caused the collision just before dawn.

The owner of the Sunset Railroad wants to abandon the tracks that run into Taft, California.

Appropriate as it seems, business and government appear to be standing on different sides of the track on San Jacinto Rail after railroad companies reached an agreement over rail access in Clear Lake, Texas.

Cleanup is still underway after a freight train derailed, spilled its load, and forced nearly two dozen people who live in Gibson, Tennessee, from their homes.

The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a nearly $1 million award to the widow of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway worker killed when his track inspection vehicle was struck by an oncoming train four years ago.

Stamford, Conn. private equity firm Olympus Partners has acquired rail car services company Meridian Rail Acquisition Corp. from New York private equity firms Cerberus Capital Management and Three Cities Research Inc.

A growing demand for identity-preserved agriculture products, coupled with a new concept in shipping them, may be the answer to locating an intermodal facility in Minot.

Rail executives told a Washington, D.C., City Council hearing Monday that, despite concern about the danger of a terrorist attack, they had not been ordered to stop running cargos of ultra-hazardous toxic chemicals through the capital and refused to say whether they were doing so voluntarily.

The railroad that refuses to die is gearing up for a comeback.

A federal judge has refused to settle a dispute between the South Dakota Railroad Authority and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad without a trial over the use of a key rail interchange at Aberdeen.

A tentative agreement has been reached for a new company to take over operating the western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio railroad owned by the Columbiana County Port Authority.

The Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corp. and its union employees have agreed to enter binding arbitration to resolve a two-year-old contract dispute.

Two BNSF freight trains collided east of Columbia Falls, Montana, Thursday morning, blocking the main rail line and forcing Amtrak to bus Empire Builder passengers 250 miles from Whitefish to Havre.