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Every day, trains climb a steep mountain corridor between the southern boundary of Glacier National Park and the northern boundary of the Great Bear Wilderness.

A new parking lot next to the Old Santa Fe Depot in Amarillo, Texas, means the former Santa Fe "Madame Queen" 2-10-4 locomotive soon will find a new parking space for the first time in almost 50 years.

This week, the Kansas City Southern Railroad will receive Electro-Motive Division's first two SD70ACE locomotives for a 60-day pilot.

Houston, Texas Mayor Bill White is targeting two freight train companies in his fight against traffic congestion.

The engineeer at the controls of an Amtrak train that nearly collided head-on with a freight train admitted he fell asleep and missed several warning alarms, the railroad said Thursday.

A BNSF coal train derailment near Manley, Minnesota has closed Highway 17 in Rock County on Wednesday, but has since been cleared.

A team of East Mississippi economic development officials say 2,000 jobs held by Clarke and Wayne county residents depend on the repair and upgrade of a 55-mile stretch of railroad track.

CSX Transportation rolled out the red carpet for Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., Monday afternoon, and they liked what they saw.

Kansas City Southern's recently-announced acquisition of twenty-five (25) SD50s from National Railway Equipment Leasing will mean new life for a group of former Conrail units.

Trains are expected to roll along a northwest Shawnee County, Kansas, track late Wednesday evening, three days after a derailment collapsed a Union Pacific bridge, a company spokesman said.

Norfolk Southern Corporation is the 2004 recipient of the Urban League of Hampton Roads award given annually to a local company that has made significant progress in diversifying its work force.

Forty-six Burlington Northern and Santa Fe employees have decided to transfer to Topeka to work in the locomotive repair shops -- about 40 fewer than originally expected.

Former VIA Rail chairman Jean Pelletier, who was fired last month for belittling former Olympic champion Myriam Bedard, is suing his former employer and the federal government for defamation and illegal dismissal.

Bomb threats brought transportation to a halt on Tuesday.

A historic railroad bridge, the Kinzua Viaduct in Pennsylvania, that was once the longest and tallest in the world and remained the fourth-tallest in the country will not be rebuilt because the project would be too expensive, state officials said.

Traffic was flowing again Saturday on Ga. 60 (Candler Highway) between Tanners Mill Road and Belmont Highway near the Hall and Jackson County line.

CBS News' national desk received telephone threats Tuesday against some specific plane flights and scheduled trains.

Sound Transit delivered on a promise to bring commuter rail service to Snohomish County by the end of 2003.

Two Sacramento-area Amtrak conductors were indicted Thursday on federal embezzlement charges, while a third has agreed to plead guilty, prosecutors said.

Porter County, Indiana, officials appear willing to hear a request from area farmers seeking to salvage a rail line carrying millions of bushels of locally grown grains to market.

Rail customers can now receive detailed, timely, customized information about rail service conditions that affect their shipments.

A month-long strike at Canadian National Railway came to an end last week when employees ratified a new three-year collective agreement.

By next year, more trains loaded with Wyoming coal will be leaving the Powder River Basin due to a track expansion project.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) announced that James M. Andres has been named the Company's new Chief Accounting Officer and Global Controller.

The wheels of progress turn slowly but Clarksburg, West Virginia leaders are confident that CSX soon will finish appraising more than five miles of railbed for a proposed Rails to Trails in and around Clarksburg.

CSX Transportation and the Mississippi Department of Transportation are suggesting that eight railroad crossings in Biloxi, Mississippi, be closed as part of a Coastwide plan to reduce or prevent vehicle-train collisions.

VIA Rail Canada's 2002 deficit of $153.7 million will balloon to $184 million for 2003 and some rail-transport insiders are pointing the finger at the inefficiency of its recently purchased Renaissance trains and the federal sponsorship scandal.

In a move that could bring an estimated 200 permanent jobs to Louisiana's River Parishes, the Port of South Louisiana has been awarded a $900,000 federal grant to construct a rail spur in Reserve, officials said Wednesday.

A third round of layoffs is going on this week at CSX Corp. as the railroad company continues its management restructuring plan announced in November to cut 800 to 1,000 nonunion jobs.

Norfolk Southern Corporation has been recognized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a certified member of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), a voluntary government-business initiative to improve supply chain and border security.