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A northbound CSX Transportation train derailed early Tuesday, leaving rail cars piled up in the center of Aberdeen, North Carolina's historic business district, missing a historic depot by less than 30 feet.

Amtrak service east of Syracuse resumed on Monday, following a derailment Saturday in Ilion, Herkimer County, New York.

Amtrak will make cutbacks in service out of New York City as a result of a decision to stop carrying bulk mail for the U.S. Postal Service next month.

A Kansas City Southern train carrying military fighting vehicles derailed Sunday, dumping its cargo across the tracks and into a Bolton neighborhood.

A group of farmers and other business owners has launched a $40,000 study to determine whether a container-shipping site would be practical for eastern South Dakota.

The iron ore industry and rail shipments on the Quebec, North Shore, & Labrador Railroad in Labrador West remains down, because of a strike.

Amtrak plans to eliminate its only service from Akron, Fostoria and Youngstown next spring, a spokesman for the Ohio Rail Development Commission said Thursday.

Amtrak will restructure its Florida service Nov. 1, providing Tampa with more convenient schedules, restoring sleeping and dining cars here, and adding Orlando, Columbia, S.C., and Raleigh, N.C., to stops on the Miami-Tampa- New York route.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives will hold a public hearing of the Consumer Affairs Committees at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 at the East Norriton Township Building in response to the July 29 train derailment in the township. The hearing comes at the request of state Reps. John Fichter, R-70, and Jacqueline Crahalla, R-150.

Leaving the highway between Grand Island and Fremont would in many places take a traveler to the tracks of the Nebraska Central Railroad, a "short-line" railway that has for 11 years transported agricultural products on slow trains behind bright red engines.

Diesel-powered passenger trains could be running between Mooresville and Charlotte, North Carolina, by 2009 or 2010, carrying commuters at speeds up to 79 mph, a Charlotte transit official told a community meeting Wednesday.

A Vancouver, British Columbia, company that builds environmentally friendly railway locomotives in Calgary is winning substantial funding and praise for its

CSX Transportation and local officials in Schuyler, New York, are investigating a train derailment that happened in Herkimer County.

Amtrak plans to stop carrying mail in October as it refocuses on its core business of transporting passengers.

For years, fans of the University of Texas have faced hours of traffic jams and accidents on IH-35 when going to the annual Texas-OU rivalry at the Cotton Bowl.

Three high-speed trains that were rebuilt at a cost of tens of millions of dollars are being shelved indefinitely, further dimming hopes that upstate rail passengers will get faster service to New York City.

Amtrak is amending its schedules and rerouting some trains on its East Coast service in advance of the approach of Hurricane Frances.

Four Amtrak trains were canceled among Richmond, Williamsburg and Newport News on Tuesday and Wednesday because of power outages and flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston.

Due to flooding and washouts, service to customers located on the Richmond, Va. District, extending from Burkeville, VA, milepost 89 to West Point, VA, milepost 179, will be interrupted.

CN announced on Friday the selection of Great Canadian Railtour Company (GCRC) as the operator of new, exciting tourist trains in British Columbia and Alberta.

Clovis police say the derailment of a rail car at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe yard in Clovis killed a 26-year-old yard employee.

Amtrak and a railroad workers' union are expressing concern about a short-line railroad operator's ability to maintain 200 miles of track it wants to lease from CSX.

North Carolina can point to some results from $25 million in railway improvements over the past three years.

The state's long-range goal of reducing the demands on Virginia's congested and often out-of-date roads and putting more passengers and freight on rails will require a substantial commitment and cash, railroad executives said Wednesday.

More than 12-thousand Eunice, Louisiana, area residents will divide some 65 million dollars being paid by Union Pacific Railroad Corporation for claims filed after a train carrying hazardous materials jumped the track in May 2000.

A union representing about 40,000 railroad workers is on the verge of merging with the Teamsters.

Vermont transportation officials are examining conditions on some of the state's 600 miles of track to develop a rail plan, something they haven't done in nearly 20 years.

Portland & Western crew members worked through mid-week to rebuild railroad tracks in the Albany, Oregon, yard north of Queen Avenue where three locomotives derailed Monday night.

CSX and Norfolk Southern are fighting over Conrail

VIA Rail employees have ratified a new three-year labor contract that gives them a cumulative wage increase of more than 10 percent, a union spokesman said Tuesday.