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The 186-mile rail line that runs through Carlsbad, New Mexico, will no longer be operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.

It was an emotional roller coaster at the Minturn Turntable restaurant inside the former Denver & Rio Grande Western roundhouse at Minturn, Colorado on Wednesday.

Nashville, Tennessee

Georgia officials, who have been hoping to have commuter train service going south of Atlanta by 2006, say another route to Athens could be next.

More than a year has passed since lawmakers cleared the way for "rail ports" to be built in Indiana.

RailAmerica, Inc. reported its freight carloads for the month and eight months ended August 31, 2004.

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

Expedia Canada Corp. recently announced a strategic deal with VIA Rail to provide hotel and car rental booking capabilities to viarail.com .

Two special relief trains operated by CSX Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad were moving toward Florida today to provide fuel for emergency operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Frances, which struck the state on Labor Day weekend.

Florida East Coast Railway

TNT Logistics North America and CSX Transportation, both headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, have reached an agreement to cross-dock vehicle parts at TNT's rail logistics center in Toledo, Ohio, according to a TNT Logistics news release.

BNSF Logistics and Autolog Corporation have announced the expansion of the Car-Rail service to include numerous Midwestern cities.

Two-thirds of the work force of one of the area's oldest rail lines will soon be out of work since the track was leased by an international railroad operator late last month.

Plans to repair the U.S. 80 Mississippi River bridge have stalled over objections raised by a railroad company that pays tolls to use the adjacent tracks.

A group of northwest Canadian grain farmers have formed a rail shipping co-operative they hope will save producers thousands of dollars in trucking costs.

CSX Transportation (CSXT) has begun horn-free operations in a "quiet zone" on a four-mile stretch of its tracks extending through Blue Island, Evergreen Park and Chicago.

Officials with the Transportation Safety Board were investigating a train derailment in western Nova Scotia Monday.

A hurricane watch remains posted from Morgan City, Louisiana, to St. Marks, Florida, and extends inland over southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia.

A car-carrier loaded with vintage Porsches was struck by a freight train Sunday after becoming stranded on the tracks, officials said.

An off-duty Independence Township, Michigan, firefighter spotted something leaking Sunday from a freight train in Springfield Township.

Service on SEPTA regional commuter rail Routes R3 Media-Elwyn and R6 Norristown, Pennsylvania, will operate with new schedules beginning Sunday, September 12 due to separate railroad projects.

Freight trains rumbling across Florida's Treasure Coast are longer and slower in the aftermath of Hurricane Frances, meaning longer waits for motorists at railroad crossings.

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railroad stopped in Picayune Thursday afternoon to announce the completion of a four-year corridor project to upgrade 104 public crossings with signals and gates.

With the original Labor Day weekend deadline come and gone, plans for the reopening of the Chetek to Cameron, Wisconsin, line of the Union Pacific railway are continuing to slowly chug along.

Florida East Coast Railway has launched a redesigned Web site, www.fecrwy.com, intended to give customers more real-time shipping information. The Web site provides information on the railway's carload and intermodal services, and facilitates the ability to receive point-to-point quotes online. The site also includes an updated system map to help customers visualize the railway's reach, including the locations of its intermodal rail yards and ramps, transload facilities and lumber reloading facilities.

Amtrak train service in Nappanee, Indiana, will be discontinued by March 1, leaving many Amish passengers without transportation to visit Pennsylvania, the mayor said.

Nevada officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Energy Department over its plan to ship radioactive waste across the state to a planned nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.

Railroad investigators were still trying to figure out Wednesday why a freight train derailed in downtown Aberdeen Tuesday morning.

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

Last year residents in the Bailey-Clinton neighborhood had to live with a foul odor. It was coming from a nearby railyard.