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Union Pacific Corp., trying to defuse criticism over its worst shipping delays in six years, told customers that it was adding workers and locomotives, without saying when cargo congestion might end.

A cut of runaway cars reportedly kept Detroit, Michigan police busy Tuesday afternoon.

A Muncie, Indiana railroad employee died when he was pinned between a semitrailer and a train near a Red Gold tomato processing plant.

Some Steamtown National Historic Site train excursions are back on track this summer.

A U.S. District Court jury in Wichita awarded more than $800,000 in damages today to a Junction City man who claimed he sustained frostbite and a foot injury while working for the Union Pacific Railroad in Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 31, 1999.

Canadian National Railway Co. said on Monday about 325 brakemen and conductors represented by the United Transportation Union voted in favor of switching to an hourly wage system.

Canadian National Railway is rolling out a new look for its business train.

Coahoma County, Mississippi, supervisors say they will continue a contract with C&J Railroad as long as the county gets a $15,000 payment on a debt that tops $90,000.

Unless there's a good reason for it, commuter rail trains won't idle for more than half an hour, MBTA chiefs said before a South Station gathering of federal and state environmental officials ushering in new pollution standards yesterday.

The Union Pacific Railroad Co. has filed to abandon its railroad line through Yuba City, California.

BNSF's Memorial Day Operating Plan will focus on meeting customers' expectations while minimizing operations due to anticipated reductions in traffic.

Improved service and operating performance are driving opportunities for business growth and enhanced value at Norfolk Southern Corporation, David Goode, chairman, president and chief executive officer, told the company's shareholders at their 22nd annual meeting.

GO Transit wants to spend about $300 million to replace its aging and deteriorating fleet of locomotives so it can run longer trains and carry up to 20 per cent more commuters.

CN announced it has reached a tentative collective agreement with the union representing approximately 200 of its Canada-based train dispatchers.

Union Pacific Railroad will meet with customers Monday in San Francisco to address concerns about congestion and service delays on its 23-state system.

Shareholders of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. on Wednesday elected three directors at its annual meeting of shareholders.

Several cars of a Burlington Northern freight train fell into the South Platte River near Coors Field Thursday afternoon as the train derailed crossing a bridge in Denver, Colorado.

All Amtrak trains through Colorado will be detoured around the state through Saturday because of a rock slide that knocked a coal train off the tracks late Thursday in the mountains west of Denver.

Two Norwegian Fjord horses owned by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus died after a train hit them Tuesday as they were being unloaded in Dayton, Ohio, two spokeswomen for the circus said Friday.

A Norfolk Southern train derailed in New Miami, Ohio on Friday, but no injuries were reported.

Guilford Rail System's mainline between East Deerfield and Lowell, Massachusetts has been blocked by a derailment.

Larger waiting areas, new shops, and a spacious pedestrian plaza are some of the amenities commuters will enjoy if proposed renovations to the Trenton train station are completed.

VIA Rail Canada's Skeena service just moved a notch up the totem pole.

A $200,000 federal grant given to the City of Oneonta, New York will be used to study possible pollution in sections of a privately owned rail yard and draft a redevelopment plan the 100-acre area.

CSX Transportation officials have slightly altered a plan to abandon the corporation's railroad line between North Vernon and Aurora, according to North Vernon Mayor John Hall.

Canadian National Railway faces federal charges a year after two employees died when a wooden trestle collapsed and the front of a freight train plunged into a ravine near McBride, B.C.

Two Burlington Northern Santa Fe train locomotives caught fire in separate incidents near Gillette, Wyoming, but were extinguished by firefighters, according to the Campbell County Fire Department.

Train service to New York City was delayed during the morning rush Wednesday after a commuter train struck and killed a woman at the Trenton, New Jersey train station, authorities said.

Emergency officials are still trying to determine what caused two Norfolk Southern trains to collide late Wednesday night in Powhatan Point, Ohio.

The Colorado Historical Society is working to find a new operator for the historic Georgetown Loop Railroad, along with some engines and cars.