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Railroad officials are willing to pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who caused a collision and derailment in Central Texas.

In Bakersfield, California, the EPA and San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District announced a $75,000 grant that will allow Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company and Union Pacific Railroad to retrofit several switcher locomotives in the San Joaquin Valley.

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) is advising the general public in the borough of Cote Saint-Luc, Hampstead, Montreal West that it will undertake a test of its emergency siren at its St-Luc marshalling yard at 13:00 on Saturday, October 2, 2004.

A 20-railroad car derailment near Dougherty, Oklahoma, Wednesday night halted rail traffic, including Amtrak

Starting tomorrow, visitors to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania can climb inside a 140-ton locomotive and drive the train down the tracks from Lancaster to Harrisburg -- at least virtually.

Sound Transit said it has completed the $13.4 million purchase of land between its Tacoma Dome Station to Lakewood from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.

Union Pacific Railroad has expanded its extensive air emission reduction program by acquiring two types of new high-tech locomotives for switching in rail yards.

Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. has provided an update on the impact of Hurricane Jeanne on its operations.

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and Norfolk Southern Railway (NSR) today filed with the United States Surface Transportation Board (STB) seeking authority for trackage rights arrangements that will improve operational efficiency and enhance rail service in the U.S. Northeast.

Amtrak officials took congressional staffers and others on a tour of rail drawbridges in Connecticut on Tuesday to show that federal money is needed to replace the deteriorating structures.

A Scotland County, North Carolina, jury returned a $7.5 million verdict for a retired railroad worker suffering from a rare form of asbestos cancer, according to the Raleigh law firm of Martin & Jones.

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is offering another opportunity to ride rails through the beautiful Hiwassee River Gorge.

Ohio's Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, and Ohio Central Railroad, will offer a Fall Foliage Train Ride from Dennison to Morgan Run, near Coshocton, Oct. 17.

Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc. (Mass Bay RRE) and High Iron Travel Corp. announce with great regret that they have canceled two special excursion trains that would have run on the Housatonic Railroad during Columbus Day Weekend.

Hoping to jumpstart the development of a multiuse, multiseasonal trail along the state-owned Brewer-to-Calais rail line, a small group of legislators, businesspeople and outdoors enthusiasts gathered along the rail line in Ellsworth Monday.

Firefighters were called in early Wednesday morning to snuff out the second suspicious blaze this year at the abandoned Delaware and Hudson locomotive shop building in Colonie, New York. Crews from six area fire departments responded around 02:30 EDT to battle flames and smoke at the partly demolished building off Lincoln Avenue bordering Watervliet. Fire officials fought flames shooting from the roof and sides of the structure.

Virginia's top public rail official yesterday said she was "disappointed and frustrated" with CSX Corp. for delaying a $65.7 million upgrade of the rail system between Richmond and Washington.

Recovery from Hurricane Ivan continues in Alabama, Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle. Rail operations resumed Sept. 27 between Baldwin and Pensacola, Fla.

As hurricane-relief trains wait to roll into the region, the Florida East Coast Railway has closed 41 railroad crossings on the Treasure Coast and in Palm Beach County where there is no power to operate crossing signals.

Flood waters left from the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne slowly receded Wednesday, reopening commuter routes that had been blocked with mud and other soggy debris.

Last week, Kansas City Southern Railroad received a signed contract with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), formalizing a grant to facilitate the purchase of two RailPower Green Goat

Total Logistics, Inc. (TLI) announced today that its subsidiary Total Logistic Control (TLC) has entered into a new 10-year exclusive contract to provide railcar switching and placement services with the City of Rochelle, Illinois.

Lawyers for CN Rail will appear in court in Prince George next year, in connection with a fatal train wreck in northern B.C. in May 2003.

Amtrak officials who authored a recently released five-year strategic plan say they need a systemwide annual operational budget of $1.8 billion from the federal government if they are going to continue.

Great Falls, Montana, development officials have proposed a land transfer they hope will allow a rail line, needed to serve a new malt processing plant, to be built across land protected by a conservation easement.

The truck driver involved in a 1999 Amtrak derailment that killed 11 people and injured 122 others near Bourbonnais was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison.

Salvage efforts continued Tuesday in a remote area south of Shelby where a grain train derailed a day earlier, spilling tons of grain.

Two Union Pacific workers were injured this morning when their train smashed into a parked freight train in northern Victoria County, Texas, authorities said.

The day after a fire in one of the four East River railroad tunnels owned by Amtrak forced the cancellation of all Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road service for hours between Penn Station and Jamaica, officials said it would lead to a re-examination of future tunnel evacuation and safety procedures.

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced changes to its senior management team, including the election of a new president and the promotion of six senior executives. The changes will be effective Oct. 1.