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Railroads will face a challenge again this year in hauling North Dakota's harvest to market, shippers predict.

An Amtrak conductor said Tuesday that he will resign rather than face a company investigation for suggesting to train passengers that they should vote against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Amtrak will resume its full Florida service, effective today, Wednesday, August 25, 2004.

The Grand Traverse Dinner Train was back on track by Saturday, after a derailment forced the company to cancel three tours in Michigan.

A federal report says poor communication and conflicting advice to residents hurt the emergency response to a deadly chemical leak.

Trains were running throughout the system Monday [August 16], even in CSXT's central Florida subdivisions hardest hit by two major storms - Tropical Storm Bonnie on Wednesday and Hurricane Charley on Friday.

One man was in critical condition and a woman feared injured after a passenger train struck a pickup truck Monday morning.

A Union Pacific Railroad tunnel in the Cascades, previously closed due to fire, has reopened, and Amtrak

CSX Transportation is reviewing nine bids for 530 miles of track in West Virginia.

Canadian Pacific Railway said Friday it has enhanced its Website with the addition of weekly carload and key performance measure reports. The reports are available, beginning Friday, in the Investors section of CPR's Website, www.cpr.ca .

Canada's Transport 2000 is urging the federal government to address the critical timekeeping problem affecting Canada's passenger rail service.

A fire causing extensive damage to a Union Pacific Railroad tunnel near Eugene, Oregon has required temporary suspension of train operations between Eugene and Klamath Falls, Ore.

Alabama trackage affected by a Thursday afternoon freight train derailment should be ready for traffic by noon today, a CSX Transportation spokesman said Friday.

Lawyers involved in a civil suit in Mandan, North Dakota, are objecting to a settlement the state reached with Burlington Northern Santa Fe over a decades-old diesel spill here, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said.

The Union Pacific says it made some headway Friday in the struggle to control a tunnel fire that has interrupted normal freight and passenger train service from the Willamette Valley south.

A railroad tunnel closed by fire August 14 is scheduled to be reopened Monday night.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Manville, New Jersey, Mayor Angelo Corradino says that CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern railroads have to do something about the putrid smell that continues to emanate from rail cars filled with garbage and stored in Manville within the next few weeks or else.

The Union Pacific Railroad surprised Perry, Iowa, officials with its plans to abandon tracks located inside the City limits at a meeting Monday.

The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Commissioners have voted to release $1.6 million in federal funds to expand Norfolk Southern's rail-car storage capacity at Dillerville Rail Yard in Lancaster.

A federal judge has barred the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad from using managers to fill crew positions on special passenger cars.

Fines of up to $50,000 per violation could be levied on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for blocking intersections in Escalon, California.

CSX Transportation (CSXT) has been ranked the top rail carrier on Waste News' Hauling and Disposal Ranking list.

The Adirondack Council seeks to join a lawsuit to block the construction of railroad communication towers in the Adirondack State Park. The Council, a private advocacy group, Wednesday petitioned the U.S. District Court in Albany to join the public Adirondack Park Agency to prohibit Canadian Pacific Railway of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from completing plans to erect four communication towers along its 500-miles of track in northern New York.

After nearly 10 months of negotiations, the town of Castle Rock, Colorado, has reached an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad Co. to share funding of the Front Street flyover project.

Three train cars derailed Thursday afternoon at the Canadian Pacific Railway rail yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania, gashing a 500-pound propane tank, officials said.

A CSX Transportation freight train carrying coal derailed Thursday in north Mobile County, Alabama, sending about 14 cars into a bayou and piling up eight more cars on land, officials said.

A fire burning inside a key rail tunnel southeast of Eugene, Oregon, has disrupted Amtrak passenger service between the Northwest and California and is causing freight delays for West Coast shippers, officials say.

A CSX Transportation train was forced to stop in East Rochester, New York, Thursday night, after the conductor was hit by a stone.

A Norfolk Southern train derailed early Thursday morning at the Enola rail yards in Cumberland County, Pennsyvlvania.