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About 250 people waited in Johnstown this week for a new-look train that could stem the brain drain and propel the region into a bedroom community for Greensburg and Pittsburgh.

The New York Susquehanna & Western's small fleet of B40-8s, 4002, 4004, 4006 and 4008, that have been sidelined by the railroad since their lease expired last year, have found a new home.

Virginia Railway Express commuter-train riders will pay up to 18 percent more after June 28, when the price of a 10-trip ticket goes from $58.05 to $68.40.

The property where the former Conrail (ex-Pennsylvania Railroad) Hollidaysburg Car Shop sits in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, is a designated Keystone Opportunity Zone which gives a tax break to the railroad.

A former Boston & Maine Railroad trestle spanning Northwest Drive in Plainville, Connecticut, has been nothing more than a steel canvas for the town

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported March 2004 and first quarter of 2004 traffic volumes for its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.

Ridership on the Alaska rails fell to a 13-year low last year, according to data released by the Alaska Railroad on Tuesday.

Kansas City Southern on Tuesday reiterated that it expects its Mexican rail partner, Grupo TMM, to fulfill its obligations in a disputed sale of Mexico's biggest railroad.

This year, CN Railway's United States Region engineering crews will replace 81 miles of rail, renew nearly 326,000 crossties, and install 109 turnouts.

The Bush administration sought information on Tuesday from states on how they would contract rail service to private companies if Amtrak were dismantled and some or all of its routes were open to competition.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will sink more than $44 million into rail improvements in its Montana Division this year.

Rail Management Corporation's Bay Line Railroad LLC is receiving a quartet of remanufactured GP40-2 locomotives.

CSX Corp. appears to have staved off an attempt to ban train shipments of chemicals on its tracks through the heart of Washington, D.C.

Two cars of a four-car South Shore Line train derailed just west of South Bend and disrupted service east of Michigan City on Saturday.

Recommendations from a federal study on the deadly 2002 train derailment near Minot are being incorporated into a railroad bill in the US Senate.

The State of North Carolina is expanding services at the High Point train station during the International Home Furnishings Market to persuade more market visitors to ride the train instead of driving.

Rail transit operators have tightened security in response to an apparent increased threat of terrorist attacks.

COMPREHENSIVE NEW OPERATING PLAN UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Regional VPs and all CSX Transportation division managers were in Jacksonville in late March to review the first stage of a new operating plan.

On March 30, Kansas City Southern opened the newly constructed Harmon siding on the "Meridian Speedway" at milepost 64 in Morton, Mississippi.

A 10-car Canadian Pacific Railway train derailment dumped tons of powdered kaolin clay onto the Freight Main Line tracks near Laflin Road in Laflin, Pennsylvania on Sunday night.

The engineer aboard an Amtrak passenger train reported seeing some ``misalignment in the rail'' shortly before a derailment that killed one passenger and injured dozens of others.

In a move sure to anger some southern end officials, the Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Commissioners have asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to delay a ruling on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Atglen & Susquehanna rail line.

A Washington State group turning to trains to improve transportation in Snohomish County has set its sights on a little-used rail line on the Eastside.

The Northern Central Railroad (NCR), a newly-formed noncarrier, has filed notice with the Surface Transportation Board to acquire and operate rail lines located in Southern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland.

The state-of-the-art Management Control System (MCS) was implemented last week on Tex-Mex with a transition that was virtually transparent to customers.

A major hurdle in bringing an Amtrak station to Lyons, New York, has been cleared.

The Unadilla Valley Railway Museum now owns its depot in New Berlin, New York, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor.

A total of 410 railroad air-dump ballast cars carrying 14,350 cubic yards of sub-ballast has been unloaded on the Bestwall spur, south of Marysville, Kansas, since the work started in March.

Surging volumes of cargo from China combined with a shortage of rail cars has led to a record backlog of container traffic at the Port of Vancouver, the chief executive of the Vancouver Port Authority said.

U.S. rail carload traffic rose 3.7 percent (60,142 carloads) in March 2004 compared to March 2003, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported.