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Firefighters got an unusual call to fight a blaze involving several locomotives at the Canadian National yard in east Winnipeg, Manitoba on Thursday.

Fourteen cars of an 83-car Norfolk Southern train derailed near an industrial park in Chilhowie, Virinia, leaving the area smelling like a brewery Thursday.

Ottawa has finally shown some interest in the Yukon-Alaska railroad dream.

Canadian Pacific Railway's Freight Main Line along Boyd Station Road were reopened early Thursday morning after 25 train cars derailed there on Tuesday night.

A proposed study to consider a tourist rail system in the area received informal support Tuesday from the city of Coralville, Iowa and Johnson County Board of Supervisors.

Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Mayor Harry Wyant detailed a plan in October 2003 for the town to create its own railroad-related tourist attractions while it waits for money for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Heritage Center.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported October 2004 traffic volumes for its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.

The Code Enforcement Board upheld citations and a possible $5,000 in fines against CSX Transportation Wednesday after the city's deadline for the company to present a plan to repair the dilapidated 15th Street bridge came and went.

The D.C. Council rejected legislation yesterday that would have barred railroads from shipping hazardous materials through the nation's capital, defusing a standoff with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and CSX Corp.

G.I. Jobs magazine has named Union Pacific Railroad one of the nation's top 25 Military Friendly Employers for 2004.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum will reopen Saturday, 21 months after a record snowfall brought down the roof at the roundhouse.

On Friday, November 12, at approximately 13:25 EDT, Canadian National Railway train Q12031-12 derailed near Diamond, Quebec, on the Montmagny Subdivision.

Santa Claus is delegating his North Pole duties to a team of elves so that he may make his annual railroad trip through Appalachia.

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad will partner with Warner Brothers Studios to bring the blockbuster movie

The Virginia Central Railroad is almost ready to roll out of Staunton, Virginia.

Bossier, Louisiana's Mayor George Dement still has one campaign promise to fulfill after four terms and 16 years in office: bring in an Amtrak system.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Dillwyn-based railroad's plan to lease nearly 200 miles of CSX Corp. track across Virginia got the green light yesterday from a federal oversight agency.

A preliminary report accuses the engineer of an Amtrak train that derailed last month of ignoring warning signals and failing to seek permission from a Metro-North dispatcher to back up the train.

Five people were killed Wednesday morning when their car collided with a Norfolk Southern (search) research train about 12 miles from the Georgia-South Carolina border.

Barron County, Wisconsin, rail service once seemed doomed is on track to continue with the entry of a new short-line carrier that will begin operating by the end of November.

Canadian Pacific Railway will pay tribute to those who served Canada and the United States to preserve freedom in both countries.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. is nearing the end of the line on the installation of a $30 million IP network along a heavily traveled rail corridor in the Seattle area, a project that's expected to increase the reliability of the technology it uses to control signals and track switches.

An Amtrak train collided with a pickup truck, killing the driver who had tried to cross the train tracks, ignoring the warning bells and lights in Fresno, CA, California Highway Patrol officials said.

RailPower Technologies Corp. has been given an order for 35 of its hybrid locomotives from a major North American railroad, the B.C. company said Tuesday.

A Scotland County, North Carolina jury returned a $7.5 million dollar verdict for a retired CSX Railroad worker suffering with the deadly asbestos cancer, mesothelioma.

Twenty-five cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed last night on CPR's Freight Main Line north of Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

One person was killed and another hurt Wednesday when a Union Pacific refrigerated freight car smashed through the wall of a cold storage warehouse in San Antonio, police and railroad officials said.

A Union Pacific train leaked phosphoric acid the length of Story County, Iowa, and in at least 10 other counties throughout the state late Saturday.

Some rail shop upgrades and a multimillion-dollar car refurbishment should go a long way towards generating some future spin-off opportunities from the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC). Sudbury-based Polestar Inc. and North Bay-based D.J. Venasse have been contracted to build paint bays at ONTC