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CSX Transportation (CSXT) has completed a $21.7 million track and crossing improvement project to enhance the safety, capacity, and speed of freight rail traffic in the Blue Island, Illinois area.

As a security precaution, nearly all Amtrak passengers who want to ride the rails between Washington and Boston during the Republican National Convention - Aug. 28 through Sept. 2 - will have to make reservations in advance, the railroad announced Monday.

Unionized VIA Rail employees have given a strike mandate to the Canadian Auto Workers union by a majority of nearly 83 per cent, the union said on Wednesday.

Trains rolled north and south Saturday, converging in Brunswick, Maine, where Gov. John Baldacci tooted the state

Now that it appears the Pennsylvania Railroad K-4 steam locomotive restoration is steaming toward conclusion, it's important that enough of Altoona Railroader's Museum quarter roundhouse be completed to house the historic engine.

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS) and the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) have signed a corridor project agreement that will affect all 88 public railroad at-grade crossings on KCS from Vicksburg to Meridian, Miss.

CSX Corp., the Jacksonville-based rail operator and transportation giant, is considering a departure from the South Florida market. "We will confirm discussions are going on at the highest level," South Florida Regional Transportation Authority Executive Director Joe Giulietti said through a spokeswoman.

The Union Pacific railyards in downtown Sacramento appear to have a new owner. A development company says it has reached an agreement to buy the 240-acre parcel from the railroad.

A Cass County couple were awarded $12 million Friday after a Jackson County jury determined Kansas City Southern was responsible for their son's death.

Amtrak's Downeaster is idle today as the passenger rail service between Portland and Boston shuts down for the week of the Democratic National Convention.

Police say arrests could be imminent in a heist where thieves stole nearly $100,000 worth of cigarettes from a Canadian Pacific train in Brandon, Manitoba.

The total number of employees at the North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Canadian National train yard could not be confirmed by company officials as of Friday afternoon.

Norfolk Southern Corp. has become the first major corporate sponsor in a public-private effort to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown settlement.

A July 9 Union Pacific accident in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, underscores a number of dangers the Federal Railroad Administration has ignored despite repeated warnings by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a division of the Teamsters' Rail Conference.

Union Pacific Corp. posted a second-quarter profit on Thursday, but lost millions of dollars because of a shortage of train crews and locomotives, the company said.

For 90 minutes on Thursday, Amtrak passengers headed to New York and Boston were questioned and videotaped as the seven cars were searched after a note of Muslim and anti-Semitic phrases was found in a bathroom in Newark, NJ.

About 50 homes were evacuated in Henderson, Kentucky, following a CSX Transportation train derailment on Atkinson Street. The derailment happened about 23:30 CDT Thursday near Atkinson and O'Byrne.

A train derailment in Orrington, Maine, forced the evacuation of several houses, until investigators determined the liquid leaking from the train cars was not a health hazard.

A Union Pacific train has been linked to a toxic chlorine gas leak for the second time in less than a month.

Canadian Pacific Railway said it has filed a statement of claim against defendant Elk Valley Coal Partnership.

Union Pacific Railroad is leveraging the Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform to save time and ensure accuracy when distributing its financial and operational metrics to management personnel responsible for its rail operations.

Dozens of residents of a central North Dakota town, who allege they were injured or affected by a 2002 train derailment, filed multiple personal injury lawsuits in federal court in St. Paul on Monday against Canadian Pacific Railway.

An employee is suing the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Corp. over a 2001 injury he allegedly suffered while working in an Amarillo, Texas, rail yard.

Canadian National Railway's billion dollar takeover of B.C. Rail has greatly improved Grande Prairie, Alberta's chances of landing millions in federal funding for a container depot.

Some local officials are jumping on board a proposal to build a commuter rail line between New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut.

CN today reported its financial results for the second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2004.

Kansas City's Union Station interim CEO said he expected to buy a 1940s-era rail car exhibit on Friday afternoon after the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City approved a loan Friday morning to finance the $600,000 purchase. Sean O'Byrne said he expected the 11-car collection and railroad artifacts to go on display in the fall on two rail spurs by the station's north end. Admission will cost about $5 a person, O'Byrne said.

Catawba Baptist Church was packed Thursday night, but the folks who filled the pews weren't there to raise their voices in praise.

Carbon County commissioners hired a Penn Forest Township man on a split vote Thursday to help them with issues involving an 18-mile stretch of railroad the county owns.

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell and state Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler, P.E., on Friday announced that $7.4 million has been awarded for projects that will help preserve rail-freight service and stimulate economic development across Pennsylvania. The 40 projects are expected to create 1,970 jobs.