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Sarnia, Ontario's Mayor Mike Bradley came away from a recent meeting with a top VIA Rail official, convinced local passenger train service suffers from a lack of federal attention.

The collection of antique steam engines and passenger rail equipment stored for more than a decade at the C&O flats near downtown Staunton, Virginia, must leave town ahead of a new short-line railroad operator's arrival.

An Illinois railway company has expressed interest in buying a 37-mile stretch of railroad from Saukville to Kiel, Wisconsin, which Canadian National wants to abandon. As early as this week, the federal Surface Transportation Board might approve Canadian National Railway's request to abandon the stretch, an attorney representing area rail shippers said Monday. "It could be as early as Tuesday," Random Lake attorney Ed Ritger said.

After the second derailment on an area Union Pacific Railroad line in 16 months, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina on Monday called on the railroad to halt service on the line.

CN and Canadian Pacific Railway today announced a series of co-production agreements to make rail operations more efficient for Port of Vancouver freight traffic.

The Federal Railroad Administration will partner with the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway in a $482,000 federally funded research project using locomotive mounted digital video cameras to capture real-time data of actual highway-rail grade crossing collisions and trespass incidents.

Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference announced that they have reached agreement in principle to renew collective agreements governing approximately 4,500 employees who operate trains.

Twenty-five grain cars derailed Monday about six miles north of Dutton, Montana, closing Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway's line between Laurel and the Montana Hi-Line, a railway spokesman said.

The British Columbia government is touting a new train in northern B.C. as one more reason to celebrate the $1 billion CN takeover of B.C. Rail.

Twenty years ago, a young industrial designer from Fairfield thought he saw an opportunity to breathe new life into one of the nation's oldest rail lines.

A broken railroad track is to blame for the Saturday derailment of a Union Pacific Railroad in residential North Whittier, which forced the evacuation of 25 families when one of the cars smashed into a house, officials said Sunday.

A Harris County, Texas, jury awarded a former Union Pacific Railroad engineer more than $370,000 last week after finding that company negligence contributed to back problems he developed after years of riding on jolting trains. The case is one of several filed across the country by railroad workers claiming exposure to shock and vibrations on trains caused injuries. It is one of the first cases to go to trial.

Greenwood, Mississippi, Mayor Harry Smith has been waiting five years for the day when the Columbus & Greenville Railway relocation project would finally take off.

Amtrak has paid more than $186 million over the past 20 years for accidents that it didn't cause on tracks that it does not own.

A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed early Saturday, damaging at least four homes and forcing the evacuation of about 30 others, officials said. No serious injuries were reported. Investigators were trying to identify the hazardous materials on board and determine whether any leaked when the 40 freight cars and intermodal trailers left the tracks, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy Luis Castro said.

The Federal Railroad Administration has awarded a $4.9 million grant to Tri-Rail to continue tests of a self-propelled passenger rail car for another two years.

SEPTA took its doomsday show on the road to Delaware County yesterday, where residents and officials predicted disastrous results if SEPTA implements the massive service cuts and rate hikes it said are unavoidable without a major state-funding increase.

Passenger rail service between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a feasible idea, according to a consulting group hired to study the concept.

Union Pacific is beginning to learn the financial cost of its trains tumbling off Bexar County tracks five times in five months.

RailAmerica, Inc. and Railinc announced that the North Carolina & Virginia Railroad (NCVA) , owned by RailAmerica, has implemented RailSync Command.

The future of a deal to lease CSX's tracks through Staunton and Waynesboro to a short-line railroad could hinge on two key issues.

Canadian National Railway Co. has sold its remote control business, used by major North American railroads in yard switching operations, to the Cattron Group Inc.

The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad commission has fired the railway's executive director. Commission director Wayne Quinlan said yesterday that Richard Gomez was fired because he refused to resign.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded a $497,050 grant to the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) to test safety equipment that block all lanes of traffic at a high-risk highway-rail grade crossing.

Some York County, South Carolina officials worry that the handling of a controversial rail and truck terminal proposal could discourage other industries from wanting to come to the area, but a supporter says that the process has benefited the county.

The Gainesville, Georgia, City Council earlier this month agreed to a refurbishing of the city's Railroad Museum.

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

There's a new way to see the fall colors vista in a popular viewing area just 10 miles northwest of Brampton, Ontario.

A Utah company that lost out on a proposal to rip up the tracks of the former Lamoille Valley Railroad says the Vermont Agency of Transportation should rebid the project.

Carrying freight volumes not seen in decades, railroads are scheduled to report profitable quarters beginning next week.