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Amtrak is nearing a critical point in its drive to overhaul its aging infrastructure and bring its flagship Northeast Corridor into good repair, the railroad's president said on Tuesday.

Amtrak service between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas, is expected to resume Friday once a train derailment in southern Oklahoma is cleaned up.

No injuries are reported after a train derailment in southern Carter County, Oklahoma forced evacuations early Wednesday morning.

The collision of two freight trains released a plume of toxic fumes that killed a conductor and two people who lived nearby, investigators said Tuesday. Two others were left critically ill.

A 1 1/2-mile portion of U.S. Route 9W near New York's Ulster-Greene county line remained closed late Sunday night as CSX crews worked to complete cleanup and repairs after a freight train derailed before sunrise.

Seven cars of a CSXT freight train derailed near a crossing on Eastern Boulevard Monday, forcing motorists to find detours.

Wayland, Michigan's City Council members say they support the need for Dean Foods to install a railroad spur to make delivery of large volumes of vegetable oil and corn syrup easier, cheaper and more effectively by rail instead of trucks.

The Senate version of the annual Defense spending bill would authorize $14 million to study extending the Alaska Railroad to U.S. Army Stryker Brigade training areas near Fairbanks.

A glitch in projecting how many people would use a Tri-Rail extension to Jupiter could delay the start of service two years, pushing it back to 2011.

The Westmoreland Scenic Railroad may have had its last boarding call in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.

Virginia-based Norfolk Southern Corp. with 1,800 employees in the metro Atlanta, Georgia, area--1,500 who work in four 100-year-old office buildings on Downtown Spring Street--has landed a plum Midtown location for at least 300 of its workers.

Easttown, Pennsylvania, officials feel they have been left standing at the station far too long.

Carbon County, Pennsylvania, commissioners plan to hire a consultant to help them sort out the problems of an 18-mile railroad line the county owns, including whether to buy a historical group's three-quarter-mile spur in downtown Jim Thorpe.

Taking a commuter train from the city of Snohomish to Washington's King County Eastside could become a reality if a new Puget Sound Regional Council study gives the idea a thumbs up.

A Norfolk Southern rail freight line through Cumberland County could take thousands of trucks off the congested interstates. That has county officials very interested in the multimillion-dollar proposal. Now they want to see if state officials are willing to support a "public/private partnership" to get the rail idea off the ground - and if the proposal really would ease congestion on local highways.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., said Friday that it had set limits on some eastbound international cargo from Los Angeles to prevent congestion as Asian imports rise.

Kansas City Southern's Mexican railway partner has proposed a bankruptcy reorganization plan to its note holders, Grupo TMM said Wednesday. Although TMM hasn't filed for bankruptcy protection, it has asked its note holders to accept replacement notes for about $377 million of debt. Those who agree are also asked to vote in favor of a bankruptcy reorganization plan in case too few note holders accept the note exchange, according to company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Opponents of a proposed intermodal railroad-truck facility in Prince George, Virginia, were allowed to speak Thursday at the Planning Commission meeting, but people questioning the plan to put a residential development on state Route 156 next to Branchester Lakes were told they couldn't speak.

Fort Bend County, Texas, achieved a major victory in a longstanding legal dispute with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Monday.

On October 9, 2004 the Fall Festival Express, operated by the Washington, DC Chapter of the NRHS, will be transporting passengers to the 41st Annual Catoctin Colorfest in Thurmont, Maryland.

Amtrak's Heartland Flyer train struck an abandoned pickup truck Thursday night and dragged the vehicle about one-quarter mile before the train came to stop in Purcell, Oklahoma.

A Norfolk Southern Railway train tore through a gasoline tank truck at a Chalmette, Louisiana, railroad crossing Friday, sparking a deadly explosion that horrified onlookers and sent a thick ball of black smoke into the air.

An Indiana County Council on Tuesday night voted down a proposed $50,000 disbursement to a group seeking to purchase an abandoned rail line.

Amtrak is threatening to halt passenger service on its Adirondack route to Montreal because New York State is behind in its subsidy to support the train.

Impatient with lagging negotiations, the Ca

Directors of Pennsylvania's Westmoreland Scenic Railroad will meet Saturday night to determine the fate of the circa 1930s diesel train that has provided two runs a week for tourists and train buffs.

CSX Transportation has settled a lawsuit with Pitt County, North Carolina, landowners near the site of a train derailment in 2000 that resulted in a 35,000-gallon chemical spill.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it will limit capacity for container traffic on the West Coast to ease congestion that has intensified amid booming trade with China.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen/Teamster members joined Members of Congress today to speak out about the state of rail security in the nation at rallies across the country.

Fares are going up next week on the Virginia Railway Express, adding to the complaints of Fredericksburg-area commuters already weary of crowded trains and heat-related delays.