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A fire in Tunnel 7 on Union Pacific's Cascade Line about 33 miles southeast of Oakridge, Oregon, has closed the I-5 rail corridor indefinitely, the state Department of Transportation reported.

Under wet and muddy conditions, Union Pacific Railroad crews used heavy machinery on Wednesday to repair railroad tracks damaged by a train derailment Tuesday.

The Alaska Railroad has effectively delivered an ultimatum to the city of Wasilla -- the railroad is going to act and if the city and Mat-Su Borough want to be a part of it, they need to give the railroad some viable solutions, according to railroad officials.

Emergency crews including Quebec Environment Department teams were working Wednesday to clean up a fuel spill caused by the derailment of a Canadian National Ultramar gasoline train.

Mississippi Route 63 was closed in Escatawpa at least through mid-morning Wednesday following a train derailment at Mississippi Power's Plant Daniel entrance Tuesday afternoon.

The lawsuit filed by hundreds of Tamaroa, Illinois, area residents against the Canadian National Railway is back on schedule.

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced that it is has commenced an offer to exchange new unsecured Norfolk Southern debt securities for a portion of its 7.35% notes due May 15, 2007.

Michigan officials cannot enforce a proposal to divide state money equally between Amtrak and competing bus lines because the amendment is unconstitutional.

The Kinzua Viaduct, a railroad bridge that was once the longest and tallest in the world, has been taken off the National Register of Historic Places because of a tornado that ripped apart the engineering marvel last July. But what really bothers state historians is the date on which that decision was made official: July 21, the one-year anniversary of the tornado whose 94 mph winds toppled the trestle.

Amtrak passenger service between the Rensselaer Rail Station and New York City was restored late Tuesday morning, but officials expected some delays as equipment gets repositioned and the backlog of passengers is handled. Service was cancelled Monday when heavy rains washed out the bedding under tracks along the Hudson River were washed out by heavy rains between Peekskill and Garrison.

Railroad tracks on North Dakota's northern tier will continue serving Amtrak's Empire Builder despite a report that says the rails are "at risk," a Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman said.

Grupo TMM, S.A. and Kansas City Southern announced an agreement for TFM, S.A. de C.V. (TFM) to sell to KCS, Mexrail, Inc. (Mexrail) shares representing a 51 percent ownership of Mexrail for approximately $32.7 million (U.S.).

RailAmerica said the state of Victoria will consent to Pacific National buying Freight Australia.

Amtrak suspended passenger service between the Rensselaer Rail Station and New York City on Monday and canceled trains slated to leave Rensselaer early Tuesday after tracks along the Hudson River were washed out by heavy rains. Amtrak officials said they hoped to provide limited service today, beginning with a 10 a.m. southbound departure from the Albany-Rensselaer station.

The New York Department of Transportation is suing Amtrak, claiming that the national passenger railroad has failed to deliver on its promise to bring high-speed rail service to New York state.

CSX Transportation has received nine bids for 530 miles of railroad track, mostly in West Virginia.

Ridership increased over the past year on Amtrak trains hired by the Illinois Department of Transportation, including the State House and the Illinois Zephyr, officials recently announced.

Days before children are slated to head back to school, Metra officials unveiled a railroad safety program Friday designed to keep youths off the tracks.

Time is of the essence these days at CSX Transportation, where declining on-time performance has resulted in frustrated customers, lost business and missed opportunities. Only 34.1 percent of the railroad's trains arrived on time during the most recent quarter, according to parent company CSX Corp.'s second quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That represents not only a 40 percent drop from the second quarter of 2003 but also a four-and-a-half-year low. The railroad's on-time performance had risen from 34.3 percent at the beginning of 2000 to 81 percent at the start of 2002 before it began the current slide that has accelerated over the last three quarters.

A mile-long freight train was ticketed by police for blocking a dozen city crossings for almost an hour as it awaited the arrival of a replacement crew.

Hurricane Charley made landfall Saturday morning in South Carolina and CSX Transportation had no plans to curtail operations in North or South Carolina.

Canadian National has appealed a ruling by St. Clair County Judge Michael O'Malley certifying a lawsuit filed by a group of Tamaroa area residents against the railroad as a class action suit.

A BNSF train hit a railroad truck at a service crossing Friday afternoon outside Matfield Green, Kansas.

A freight train hauling corn syrup derailed in the historic community of Allensworth, California, on Saturday but no injuries or property damage were reported.

RailAmerica announced that a subsidiary company has informed notified the Surface Transportation Board it plans to buy 107 miles of railroad from Cincinnati to Columbus, Ohio (The Midland Subdivision), and to lease the related real estate from CSX Transportation, subject to negotiation and execution of a definitive agreement.

A Portsmouth, Virginia, jury ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to pay $1.5 million in damages to a Virginia Beach man who says he contracted silicosis while working for the railroad.

Interim funding to give the Northstar commuter rail project a new lease on life was approved by the Northstar Corridor Development Authority (NCDA) Aug. 5.

Plans to bring light rail to Norfolk suffered a blow Thursday when Norfolk Southern Corp. ended negotiations to sell its Norfolk-Virginia Beach rail corridor to Hampton Roads Transit, saying the agency

Federal regulators, eager to avoid a reprise of the tie-ups in rail service that occurred seven years ago, have asked the nation's railroads how they plan to avoid a worsening of the congestion that has beset parts of the nation's rail system in Texas and elsewhere.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported a 23.5% increase in July 2004 traffic volumes for its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.