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Amtrak will discontinue shipping mail for the U.S. Postal Service in order to concentrate on the core business of transporting passengers.

A group of Saskatchewan farmers have bought a 250-mile stretch of railway after the company that owned the line planned to shut it down.

The decision to move Railfest excursions onto a new route this weekend has festival organizers worried the switch could spoil their plans to commemorate the Allegheny Tunnel's 150th anniversary.

BNSF branchlines -- the tracks that once connected Montana's farm towns to the world's major grain markets -- are in danger of vanishing as business shifts to semi-trucks bound for giant new elevators.

Forty-two cars of a 109-car grain train derailed Monday about six miles south of Shelby, Montana, spilling tons of wheat along the tracks but injuring no one.

The Canadian National Railroad has rejected a plan to move a historic depot so it can be restored and turned into a community welcome center.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today celebrated the delivery of the 10,000th carload of ethanol moved by BNSF's Ethanol Express(TM) unit train service from the Midwestern United States to Lomita Rail Terminal in Watson, Calif., 18 miles south of Los Angeles, Calif.

Metro-North Railroad riders are unforgiving, and unforgetful, when it comes to poor service.

NJ Transit will study how it might extend its train platforms from Penn Station in Manhattan to a new station proposed at the city's main post office across the street.

Tony Ingram, CSX Transportation executive vice president and chief operating officer, announced that Shelley S. Mast has been named vice president-customer service operations, effective immediately.

Canadian National Railway experienced a derailment on Saturday, September 25, blocking the Ruel Subdivision between Shawmere and Foleyet in a remote northern portion of Ontario.

The Rail Services unit of GE Equipment Services announced it will unveil new capabilities and fleet management technologies at "Global Railway Tech 2004," the 43rd Annual Convention of the Railway Supply Institute (RSI) in Chicago, IL.

Amtrak is continuing to temporarily suspend service to and from Florida, due to Hurricane Jeanne.

Recovery from Hurricane Ivan continues in Alabama, Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle. The Pensacola area was hardest hit, with major damage to track, bridges and signals. Rail operations are suspended in the area, as six miles of track and eight bridges undergo major repairs.

New York City's Penn Station was evacuated on Monday and train service was halted after fires erupted in a transformer beneath the East River and on tracks near a terminal entrance, authorities said.

Over the next two weeks, BNSF will perform construction work on tracks in Oklahoma to connect a new main line. This maintenance project will be conducted on the following two days:

Once again, people have a chance to ride a special train through the scenic New River Gorge in West Virginia.

A farm group is in Ottawa again seeking support for its eight-year quest to buy a government-owned fleet of hopper rail cars.

Amtrak wants a U.S. federal court to derail its $ 185 million contract with the state of New York for high-speed train service.

A Union Pacific spokesman said unlawful riders on an eastbound Burlington Northern Sante Fe train may have pulled a brake lever, detaching the rear 50 cars from the train, which then rolled backwards for 2 miles, broadsiding the Union Pacific train headed in the same direction.

Following up on Thursday night's collision in Chicagoland's Blue Island Yard, no further word on a cause has been issued and an investigation continues.

The Federal Railroad Administration said it is investigating whether a manual track switch played a role in the derailment of a 69-car Norfolk Southern freight train early Friday morning that led to a fiery explosion and two car accidents.

Railroad stocks rose Friday, buoyed by fresh data on freight traffic that showed a record-setting volume for weekly shipments sent by rail. The number of trailers and containers shipped part of the way by rail, known as intermodal transport, came to 229,039 in the week ended Sept. 18, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Rail service operated by a Binghamton-area company should be running again by late today.

Florida's Tri-Rail officials announced Saturday afternoon that commuter rail service is suspended until further notice.

Last week, public safety officials from several Class I railroads met in Colorado Springs, Colo. to finalize new training curriculum for firefighters and other emergency responders.

The truck driver at the center of a 1999 Amtrak derailment outside Bourbonnais that left 11 people dead and 121 injured was portrayed by a prosecutor Wednesday as a "tired, greedy, inattentive, negligent truck driver."

New York State Transportation Commissioner Joseph Boardman accused Amtrak on Wednesday of hijacking three high-speed trains that are at the center of a legal battle between the state and the rail service.

Sierra Railroad - which had considered moving its Dinner Train operation from Oakdale - had a snowball's chance of getting the deal it was seeking Monday night with the city's redevelopment agency. But against all odds, the business got what it came for.

Saturday's devastating rains and flooding have crippled the little Owego & Harford Railway and left the local railroad's popular Tioga Scenic Railroad excursions in doubt.