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Canada has built up a transportation infrastructure deficit that is starting to hold back the country's economic expansion, Rob Ritchie, President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Pacific Railway, said at the opening of National Transportation Week.

An arson investigation into a Wednesday night fire in an Oneonta, New York, rail yard building is continuing, fire officials said.

Union Pacific Corporation announced the retirement of two senior executives, James V. Dolan, vice chairman, and Carl W. von Bernuth, senior vice president and general counsel.

A levee break flooding over 10 square miles of territory west of Stockton, California has halted rail service over both main tracks on BNSF's Stockton Subdivision.

Nearly half of a 28-car CSX Transportation freight train derailed Friday night in central Florida, blocking both lanes of traffic on County Road 42, officials said.

Tony Ingram, CSX Transportation executive vice president and chief operating officer, announced today W. Michael Cantrell, senior vice president-engineering and mechanical, has decided to retire effective September 1, 2004.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) announced that it has received the 2003 National Achievement Award from TRANSCAER

More railroad line track in Butler County, Kansas, is scheduled to be abandoned.

In Salina, Utah, the folks are growing restless to hear railroad hammers ring. They may not have much longer to wait.

Canadian Pacific Railway announced it has implemented a new fuel surcharge program.

Canadian National Railway made a brief appearance in Prince George court Tuesday in relation to a fatal train crash.

It will be at least another week before 42 railcars blown over May 22 by high winds can be lifted back onto railroad track that runs alongside Interstate 29 in southwest Iowa.

Operators of Amtrak's Downeaster will suspend service during the week of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

In a three-page letter, Norfolk Southern Corp. told the Boyce, Virginia's Town Council there will be no changes in the use of the whistles on trains passing through the Clarke County town.

Railroad crossing arms rose and train bells clanged as Union Pacific Corp., owner of the nation's largest railroad, officially opened its $260 million headquarters Wednesday.

New York's Southern Tier Extension Railroad Authority and its short line operator Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad are on track with plans to revitalize the region

The Port of Wilmington has tentatively agreed to a five-year contract with a major Swedish paper company, which until now has been importing paper rolls into Philadelphia.

Flagler County's booming construction industry is about to get some much needed relief.

There has been a huge surge in demand to move Canadian canola by rail to Mexico, with both Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Canadian National Railway (CN) the main beneficiaries.

Two freight trains will be based in Staunton, Virginia, under a tentative agreement reached between CSX Corp. and Buckingham Branch Railroad.

An inactive train station in Bath, Maine, could be a stop on a new rail passenger route between Brunswick and Rockland as soon as this summer.

In western Kansas, a microburst about 11:20 CDT on Wednesday blew off the rails 69 of the 95 empty grain cars of a BNSF train traveling from El Paso, Texas, to St. Joseph, Mo. The railroad had been warned by WeatherData of Wichita that high winds were likely, BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg said.

Nearly a decade after he lost his job, a former Amtrak electrician was awarded $500,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit he filed against the company.

A Denver-based company that processes Wyoming coal is considering a $250 million plant in Edgemont, South Dakota.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has spent an extra $39 million to make changes on major contracts since 2001, including $2.5 million of changes being sought this week, according to a published report. The changes being sought this week include almost $228,000 for modernization of the Blue Line's State Street Station, more than $66,000 for the Silver Line Transitway and the doubling of a $1.25 million consulting contract, according to Monday's edition of the Boston Herald.

Metro Transit officials are expressing concerns about unusual breaks in the track laid for the new Hiawatha light-rail line in Minnesota.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a civil lawsuit in Oklahoma against one of the state's largest railroad companies alleging it refused to hire a conductor after learning he had a disability.

A federal appeals court upheld a $1.4 million verdict against Norfolk Southern Corp. over a crash that killed a motorist at a railroad crossing 11 years ago.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company announced that a decision has been rendered in the case of George W. O'Leary vs. Providence and Worcester Railroad Company.

Passengers on Amtrak's Texas Eagle enjoyed four free performances by Buzzard Run, a local bluegrass band, during a weekend experiment to test reaction to live music on a train.