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The Alaska Railroad will reach Fort Greely before it's rerouted through the Fairbanks area, Alaska Railroad Corp. President Pat Gamble said Tuesday.

As CSX Transportation's plan to build a $20 million truck and rail terminal in southern York County faces steep opposition, the company could take advantage of federal rules that would allow it to build the facility without local approval.

South Carolina's York County Council members could take a field trip to a CSX train and truck terminal to help them determine whether the company should be allowed to set up a similar operation here.

Crews might need a week to clean up the debris from a train that derailed just west of Payne, Ohio, near the Indiana state line, an emergency official said Tuesday.

A Portland & Western freight train crunched to a halt south of Albany on Wednesday morning when one of its two locomotives slipped off the track and overturned.

A federal judge will hold a hearing on August 30th to consider a proposal by Union Pacific to pay $65-million dollars in a class action lawsuit settlement related to a Louisiana derailment.

Amtrak's Downeaster has been unable to make a full run from Portland to Boston because of structural problems with a bridge that passes over railroad tracks in Kennebunk, Maine.

Crews from all over Paulding County, Ohio were on the scene of a huge train derailment Monday night. It's estimated as many as 20 cars jumped the tracks, turning sideways.

Dignitaries in Marion, Ark., gathered in a red steel barn the size of a football field to welcome Southern Co.'s $10 million rail inspection yard on Tuesday.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported that net income in the second quarter of 2004 increased 40.8% to $10.8 million, compared to net income of $7.7 million in the second quarter of 2003.

Kansas City Southern has hired James Brook as vice president and comptroller, the second person the company has named to the job this year.

CSX Corporation and Citizens Trust Bank of Atlanta announced the establishment of a new credit line with a group of minority owned banks, many of which are located in communities served by CSX's rail subsidiary, CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT).

Pennsylvania Shortline rail operator Richard Robey recently proposed to the SEDA Commission of Governments Joint Rail Authority (JRA) that any agreement reached in ongoing negotiations with Norfolk Southern Railroad (NS) not be released to the public.

After two years of negotiations, TRANSFLO's Mexican affiliates, TRANSFLO de Mexico and Mexiflo, have signed agreements with Intermodal Mexico (IMEX).

Fort Wayne-based TransWorks has signed a long-term contract with its first international and largest intermodal customer.

Ideas abound for the old Port Royal Railroad as residents and advocacy groups wait to see if South Carolina's Beaufort County can buy the bulk of the right of way from the State Ports Authority.

About 20 cars of a freight train derailed in rural northeast Kentucky early Saturday, hitting a natural gas line and forcing about 45 people to evacuate, state police said.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway agreed to pay $29 million to settle a lawsuit over an underground diesel fuel leak discovered 20 years ago, the state attorney general announced Friday.

Fourteen cars of a BNSF freight train carrying sugar derailed north of Hillsboro, North Dakota on Saturday night.

CSX Intermodal wants a zoning change in order to build a truck and rail terminal off U.S. 21, six miles from Interstate 77 in York County, SC.

A special chartered passenger train will roll through central Ohio on two routes of the former Pennsylvania Railroad today, Monday, August 2.

A Union Pacific freight train traveling through Clinton, Iowa, derailed early today.

West Virginia's Harrison County Commission voted Thursday to send letters to state and federal legislators stating its opposition to CSX Transportation leasing out rail lines.

The number of passengers riding Amtrak's Hiawatha service between Milwaukee and Chicago has climbed to record levels, fueling talks of expanding the number of trips on the route and increasing the speed of the trains. Also under consideration by state and federal officials is extending the Hiawatha service west to Madison.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, will campaign by train across New Mexico at the end of this week.

It wasn't a good week for Tri-Rail. The commuter rail agency had to deal with a number of unexpected problems, including a broken rail in West Palm Beach, a water main break that flooded the tracks in Miami and communication troubles with a dispatch center in Jacksonville.

Imagine an ice cube 800 feet long and 45 feet deep. That's what Alaska Railroad engineers say they are dealing with in the Beach Lake area.

A CSX Transportation train derailed at about 03:00 EDT Thursday near Timberlake Apartments in Norristown, Pennsylvania, spilling tons of grain onto the ground and causing a temporary power outage.

Getting streetcars across railroad tracks in Tampa, Florida, soon won't be a three-person job, thanks to an insurance deal approved Thursday by the Tampa City Council.

Officials are investigating a train derailment in east Des Moines, Iowa, that caused a brief scare for a neighborhood.