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A Friday afternoon collision between a log truck and a train in downtown Hollywood wasn

The latest example of the way in which Canadian National Railway Co. navigates its investment banking relationships was played out this past week.

It's a summer program that's giving families a unique look at East Texas.

It will cost $1.2 billion to move much of the freight rail traffic that crawls through central Denver to a faster route on the plains east of the metro area, according to preliminary results of a rail relocation study obtained by The Denver Post.

The grain equivalent of a Super Wal-Mart is moving into Hensler, South Dakota.

The union representing 3,000 on- and off-train employees at VIA Rail Canada Inc. says it has broken off talks with the company on a new labor contract and its members will be in a position to strike before month's end.

A Portage, Indiana, man has received a $550,000 settlement from Amtrak after being seriously injured in a New Year

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the No. 2 U.S. trucker, sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in a dispute over sharing revenue from a shipping agreement accounting for an estimated quarter of Hunt's profit. The trucker's shares fell 5.3 percent.

A runaway Amtrak maintenance crane in Queens, New York, caused collided with two nonpassenger cars in an East River tunnel, crushing a worker's leg and injuring four other repairmen.

Beginning Monday, Tri-Rail passengers on midday trains will no longer have to use shuttle buses on the north end of the 71-mile rail line.

Car dealer Daniel Quirk, who owns the Fore River shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and stores about 3,000 cars there, wants to renovate the facility to be able to handle commercial cargo ships.

Union Pacific Corp., the biggest U.S. railroad by sales, will turn away cargo and reduce the number of trains it operates in another effort to reduce congestion.

Employees of a South Philadelphia rail yard have approved a three-year contract but remain concerned that they may lose their jobs soon.

CN Rail officials now expect to wait until at least the fall to announce the successful bidder for a new passenger service along the B.C. Rail line that runs through the Sea to Sky corridor.

The Commissioner of Maine's Department of Transportation says he hopes summer trains between Brunswick and Rockland will lead to more permanent service.

A Union Pacific Railroad train derailed at an overpass near Benton, Illinois, Friday morning sending seven railroad cars and more than 800,000 tons of coal crashing onto Interstate 57, blocking both the northbound and southbound lanes and snarling traffic for more than 20 miles in each direction.

A man from Alaska was arrested in Union Station in Chicago on charges he phoned in threats of a bomb aboard an Amtrak train on which he was traveling that turned out to be a hoax, the FBI said Friday.

A Collier County commissioner is calling on officials from Southwest Florida counties to discuss the possibility of creating a new public commuter train system on an existing railroad line that stretches from North Naples to Arcadia, Florida.

A farmer's co-op is racing to save a rail line used to carry local grain to market.

A freight train derailment that closed a rail line and a stretch of Eastern Boulevard in Hagerstown, Maryland, for more than 24 hours happened when the load of paper in one of the boxcars shifted, CSX Transportation spokeswoman Misty Skipper said.

Illinois' Winnebago County economic growth requires a transport system that integrates trains, planes and automobiles, new County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen said Wednesday.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. announced today that it had received from Burlington Northern and Santa Fe a notice that BNSF was electing to exercise its right to arbitrate the revenue division provided for in the Joint Service Agreement ("JSA") between JBHT and BNSF.

About 250 railroad jobs could be affected by CSX Transportation's decision to invite eight short-line railroads to bid on buying or leasing two major rail routes in western Maryland and West Virginia.

Two of the country's major railroads, Union Pacific Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., are raising their rates amid swelling demand from customers shipping wares for the holiday shopping season.

Federal train rules trump a town's right to issue fines for trains that block crossings for more than 10 minutes, tying up traffic and frustrating emergency vehicles, according to a Cook County circuit court decision.

Part of a slow-moving Amtrak passenger train bound for Miami derailed in Auburndale, Florida, Thursday afternoon, bruising a few schedules but none of the 153 passengers or three crew members aboard.

Seven cars of a 13-car Finger Lakes Railway freight train derailed early Thursday afternoon.

Reluctantly, Marty Manasco is giving up his hope of building a new railroad line between Shoshoni and Green River, Wyoming.

A bomb scare that stranded about 280 Amtrak passengers aboard a Chicago-bound Empire Builder train in Portage, Wisconsin, for seven hours will cost the company nearly $100,000, an Amtrak spokesman said Wednesday.

In the interest of economic development, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin supervisors were receptive Wednesday to helping keep operational a Saukville-to-Kiel rail line that its owner has proposed abandoning. Wisconsin and Southern Railroad Co. President Bill Gardner told supervisors Wednesday that he hopes his company will be able to operate the 37-mile stretch of railroad and increase economic activity in the area by providing better service than its current owner, Canadian National Railway.