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A bridge that passes over railroad tracks used by Amtrak

Kansas City Southern reported consolidated net income of $ 9.2 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2004, compared to a net loss of $0.5 million, or ($0.03) per diluted share for the second quarter of 2003.

RailAmerica, Inc. reported earnings from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2004 of $406,000, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to earnings from continuing operations of $6.7 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2003.

A brakeman who barely escaped a fiery head-on collision involving two freight trains north of Dallas is suing Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway for injuries he suffered in the crash.

Kansas City's Union Station has completed the purchase of a 1940s-era rail car set on Friday for $600,000, a spokeswoman in Union Station interim CEO Sean O'Byrne's office said Tuesday. O'Byrne went to Milwaukee in June to see the collection of 11 rail cars and railroad artifacts and sent a representative last week to verify the collection's contents.

Freight railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. said Tuesday that profit rose nearly 25 percent in the April-June period on record shipments and higher prices.

Trains were back running Wednesday after Kansas City Southern Railway crews cleared the tracks of cars that had derailed on the U.S. 80 bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, MS.

Twelve of 47 cars on a Canadian National Railway train jumped the tracks about ten miles from Ardbeg, Ontario on July 25.

A Baldwin County search and rescue team Wednesday recovered the body of a missing railroad worker who apparently fell off a CSX Transportation bridge over the Tensaw River in Spanish Fort, Alabama.

A Tuesday overnight derailment in Balaton, Minnesota left the small town cleaning up a 50,000 gallon ethanol and soy oil spill.

The Albany & Eastern Railroad has put a weight restriction on its leased 36-mile line from Lebanon to Mill City, Oregon, said Mike Root, president of the Lebanon-based short line.

Canadian Pacific Railway said strong growth in five of its seven business lines in the second quarter of 2004 pushed revenue past the $1-billion mark.

An early morning Housatonic Railroad derailment in Stockbridge, Massachusetts yesterday awakened nearby residents.

Defective fasteners used to hold the rails to the ties caused the derailment of 31 Florida East Coast Railway cars late Saturday in Stuart, Florida, a railroad official has said.

Federal officials have raised numerous issues in the past month for Georgia state planners developing the first phase of a commuter rail line intended to connect Atlanta with Macon.

Kansas City Southern announced that Robert J. Druten has been elected to its board of directors.

Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad on Tuesday unveiled a self-propelled rail car that is the latest addition to the excursion train.

Environmental cleanup crews worked for hours in Alton, Illinois on Tuesday to stem a leak in a diesel fuel tank and to clean up several hundred gallons of fuel that spilled when a remotely operated locomotive partially slipped off railroad tracks at Cut Street.

After months of uncertainty, railroad jobs planned for movement out of Battle Creek, Michigan, now appear to be staying.

A group of independent truck drivers stopped work this week and formed picket lines to protest what they describe as poor working conditions at Michigan rail and container yards.

Workers still were cleaning up the mess from Saturday's train derailment early Tuesday when seven cars from a second Florida East Coast Railway train slid off the rails just north of the old Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart, Florida.

The main highway that connects Kennebunkport, Maine with the Maine Turnpike was closed Tuesday after a bridge buckled over an area where Guilford Rail System tracks, also used by Amtrak

Authorities are searching for a missing CSX Transportation railroad worker.

Canadian Pacific Railway's main rail line has been reopened but cleanup crews are still at the scene of a derailment south of Golden, B.C. that occurred Sunday morning.

For the second quarter of 2004, Norfolk Southern reported net income of $213 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, an increase of 55 percent, compared with $137 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2003.

CSX Corporation today reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2004.

Crews from an environmental cleanup company are continuing to collect 25,000 or so gallons of canola oil from a derailment off the western shore of Lake Champlain.

With coal demand sizzling like summer heat, the 250 employees of CSX Transportation's Raceland Car Shop weren't about to break a sweat over the challenge of finding a way to make more coal cars available to customers.

A train carrying rocks derailed on its way to New Smyrna Beach, closing a route between Jacksonville and Miami.

Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) announced that they are commencing an offer to exchange new unsecured debt securities of CSXT and NSR and cash for existing unsecured debt securities of Conrail.