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Certus Software, Inc., a proven leader of corporate compliance software for the enterprise, announced that Norfolk Southern Corporation is operational with Certus(TM) software for its Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance initiative.

BNSF C44-9W 4141 blasted through the opening ceremony ribbon Monday at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co.'s new refueling station in Hauser, Idaho.

The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will operate the V&T equipment on the museum

The proposed tourist train between Capitola and Seascape, California, could make money operating only 48 days a year, and only Friday through Monday.

A North Dakota law firm in Mandan has dropped its request for a hearing on the settlement the state and city reached with Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad over a decades-old underground diesel spill.

Short-line railroad operator RailAmerica Inc. said Tuesday that it completed the sale of its Freight Australia railroad unit to Pacific National for $204 million in cash, in a move to focus on growing the company's North American rail business.

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.

Railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Monday that it signed a 20-year agreement to lease the assets of the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Co. through a new subsidiary.

Opting to negotiate instead of litigate, Canadian Pacific Railway dropped a lawsuit against New York arguing that it had the right to build four communication towers in the Adirondacks.

Transportation officials from California's Ventura and Santa Barbara counties agreed Wednesday to explore the possibility of establishing a commuter rail line between the two counties to ease traffic congestion on the 101 Freeway.

Whistler, British Columbia, tourist train won

OmniTRAX has announced a new partnership with CSX Transportation (CSXT), a business unit of CSX Corporation, to provide more efficient switching to the Fulton Industrial Business District, just outside Atlanta, Ga.

In a soybean field at Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park, the proposed Super Terminal is slowly beginning to take shape. Earth movers and huge dump trucks rumble along lonely Paul Lowery Road carrying tons of dirt to and from the site in preparation for construction of the intermodal facility.

At 06:15 CDT on Friday, August 27, 2004 both of BNSF's Nebraska Division main tracks at Ottumwa, Iowa were taken out of service due to washouts caused by heavy rains.

The rails west of Nipawin, Saskatchewan, will fall silent within a year, maybe.

Bay City community leaders were delighted Wednesday to receive a $100,000 check as part of the Michigan's Cool Cities initiative.

CSX Corporation announced the establishment of a new $1 million line of credit with Chicago- based Highland Community Bank.

Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. honored the nation's truck drivers on Thursday by hosting an event at BNSF's Alliance Intermodal Facility in celebration of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, August 22-28. More than 1,000 truck drivers were invited to enter BNSF's Alliance, Texas, intermodal center where they saw "We Love Truckers" signs and enjoyed refreshments and snacks passed out by BNSF's truckload sales team and executives from BNSF's trucking company partners, such as Dart Transit Co.

MARC trains to Frederick County, Maryland were running as normal Thursday afternoon after a train collided with a dump truck on the Frederick branch of CSX Transportation Thursday morning, a Maryland Transit Administration spokesman said.

Normal train service from Newark to New York's Penn Station resumed Sunday after a damaged overhead power wire that had caused delays was repaired, an official said.

West Virgnia Sen. Jay Rockefeller is appealing to CSX Transportation to reconsider plans to lease tracks to smaller railroads in the state.

Canadian Pacific Railway wants to go ahead with plans for major line expansions in Western Canada, but will hold off until it gets assurances from Ottawa that it will not be forced to open up its rails to other companies, president Rob Ritchie said yesterday.

The committee working to save the Storm Lake, Iowa, railroad depot got a boost last Friday when it was announced that the building will be named to the 2004 Iowa's Most Endangered Properties list.

The Fairbanks, Alaska, City Council tabled a resolution that supported the Alaska Railroad coming into Fairbanks via the Parks Highway, saying that it wasn't necessary to discuss it yet.

On August 17 and 18, the Kansas City Southern Railroad Safety Assurance and Compliance Program (SAC-P) Oversight Committee met at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) offices in St. Louis, Mo.

A three-quarter-mile stretch of train tracks that a historical society tried to sell to Carbon County, Pennsylvania, for $250,000 soon could be removed.

A surge in freight to feed a stirring economy is delivering profit gains to U.S. railroads, though not without strains for those struggling to keep pace.

Rail carrier Union Pacific said it is broadening the restrictions on volumes it currently has in place due to extreme increases in demand for its services.

Conrail, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern announced the results of the offer to exchange new unsecured debt securities of CSXT and NSR and cash for existing unsecured debt securities of Conrail.

Earlier this month, CSXT's Chicago Dispatching Center activated new 'Next Generation' dispatching (NGD) software for centralized traffic control.