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VIA Rail Canada in partnership with Fallsview Casino Resort and Peller Estates Winery is pleased to announce the new 2006 summer schedule to Niagara Falls featuring the Fallsview Casino Car, the first of its kind in Canada.

The British Columbia Railway Company (BCRC) announced it will seek a long-term operator for Vancouver Wharves, its bulk marine terminal in North Vancouver.

CSX Transportation local train A708-19 derailed in downtown Lawrenceville, Georgia early Saturday morning.

Watco Companies, Inc. (Watco) and Four Rivers Transportation, Inc. (Four Rivers) announced the sale of the Appalachian and Ohio Railroad (A&O) to Four Rivers of Paducah, Kentucky.

Union Pacific Railroad will increase the speed of its trains to 49 mph on the rail line operating through Marion, Goreville and Buncombe, Ill.

About 19 miles of third main track went into service Tuesday, May 16, between Reno and Milepost 58 on the Powder River Basin Joint Line in Wyoming.

Employees at the nation's railroads reported their lowest employee casualty rate in history during 2005, Edward R. Hamberger, president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads, said today at a luncheon ceremony honoring railroads with the best employee safety records last year.

Caterpillar Inc., the world's biggest maker of earthmoving equipment, agreed to buy railroad repair company Progress Rail Services Inc. for $800 million in stock and cash.

Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. announced that Amy Bramlitt, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Florida East Coast Railway, LLC ("FECR"), will assume additional responsibilities of FECI Vice President & Controller.

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell awarded more than $8 million to help finance 31 rail freight improvement projects that are expected to create more than 1,300 new jobs in Pennsylvania.

California's North Coast Railroad Authority has narrowed down the potential operator of the Northwestern Pacific line to two finalists.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company reported its results for the first quarter of 2006. The Company had a net loss for the quarter of $252,000, compared with a net loss of $255,000 in 2005. The loss per common share was $.06 for both quarters.

Kansas City Southern announced the appointment of two new officers and the promotion of two officers.

BNSF Railway Company celebrated the grand opening of BNSF Logistics Center-Fontana on Wednesday, a 38-acre transload operation that will provide shippers with transload services for all types of commodities, from building materials and manufactured products to bulk materials.

Selections from the BNSF Railway archival photo collection are now available online for the first time, at photos.bnsf.com.

RailAmerica, Inc. reported its freight carloads for the month ended April 30, 2006.

Norfolk Southern Corporation is maintaining the positive momentum of two years of growth created by "major shifts in the transportation sector in this country," said Chief Executive Officer Wick Moorman during the company's 24th annual stockholders meeting, held today in Norfolk. Moorman referred to 2004 and 2005 as "the best two consecutive years that our company, and the industry, has seen for a long time." He said, "Thus far in 2006, we have been able to maintain our positive momentum."

A Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad train may have sparked a large brush fire that also consumed a century-old trestle in Chicora, Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon.

Strong winds from a line of thunderstorms caused a BNSF Railway train to derail about two miles north of Belle Plaine, Kansas on Tuesday.

Kansas City Southern announced that Daniel W. Avramovich will assume the position of executive vice president sales and marketing, effective May 15, 2006.

The Great Smoky Moutains Railroad Annual RAILFEST is headed to Bryson City, North Carolina from September 15-17.

Investigators at the site of an early Monday morning derailment of a CSX Transportation coal train in Akron, Ohio have determined that vandalism was the apparent cause of the mishap.

TieTek, the national leader in composite crossties and a North American Technologies Group, Inc. subsidiary, announced that the Union Pacific Railroad has signed an amendment to the current sales agreement.

A Norfolk Southern potash train derailed on a notorious curve in Muncie, Indiana on its way south from Elkhart, IN to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Aecon Group announced that its Construction and Materials division has been awarded a $36.5 million contract by GO Transit to design and build a rail-to-rail grade separation in Markham, ON.

CN Rail is offering $7.5 million to compensate residents of lakeside property in northern Alberta that was affected when thousands of gallons of oil spilled from a train derailment last summer.

On April 12, a Kansas City Southern Railroad 70-car petroleum coke train departed from the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, destined to Montana, Mexico, making a complete roundtrip cycle in 13 days.

VIA Rail Canada announced that its new gift cards are available for those who wish to offer the gift of travel to family and friends - in time for those traveling on special occasions like Mother's Day and during the long Victoria Day weekend.

In an effort to encourage more people to leave their cars at home, GO Transit and AutoShare are launching a "station car" pilot project at Port Credit GO Station.

Union Pacific and BNSF Railway Company announced plans to begin another significant capacity expansion on the jointly owned rail line serving the Southern Powder River Basin (SPRB) coal fields, the largest open-pit, low-sulfur coal reserves in North America.