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Norfolk Southern Railway is increasing train speed from 10 mph to 30 mph between Atlanta and Macon, Ga.

A section of Interstate 95 in Connecticut buckled and partially collapsed after a fiery accident involving a tanker carrying 9,000 gallons of oil.

Bill Rowat, President and CEO of the Railway Association of Canada, commended the federal government for delivering a balanced budget, despite its fiscal pressures.

The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group is very close to deciding whether to build a $400 million container terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Norfolk Southern freight trains passing through Clayton County, Georgia, on a regular basis will be picking up speed soon and railroad officials are warning drivers to be more careful.

Canadian National Railway Co. estimates the 29-day strike by 5,000 of its Canadian employees that came to an end last week cost it $35-million to $40-million in operating profit or 8 cents to 10 cents a share on the bottom line.

This week, the Southern Belle will visit several communities in Louisiana to promote a combination of public safety initiatives.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania students may be surprised to find the railroad tracks around campus clear of brush within the next two weeks.

CSX Transportation has sent a stern reminder to employees that confidential and proprietary shipment information and accident reports are to be protected.

Norfolk Southern Corp. and Honda Manufacturing of Alabama LLC today dedicated a new $15 million rail yard at Lincoln, Ala.

A man was killed in Bossier City this morning when he drove his car into a moving freight train.

Union Pacific plans to begin rail service to a new intermodal facility in Tucson, Arizona by mid-April. The

Several towns are competing for the right to host South Dakota's railroad museum, but one state lawmaker thinks sharing the wealth might be the way to go.

Operators of Amtrak's Downeaster hope a change in operating times will make the service more convenient for passengers.

Trucks, trains and box trailers are moving in and out of Skyway Industrial Park after two inactive years.

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) announced a plan to expand its Tennessee Yard, an intermodal facility in Memphis, located at Shelby Drive and Lamar Avenue.

The federal government should move quickly to upgrade emergency systems in Amtrak tunnels under the U.S. Supreme Court and to New York's Penn Station to avoid a tragedy as disastrous as the September 11 attacks, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. said yesterday.

After months without more than a mention about General Motor's Electro-Motive Division prototype SD70ACE locomotives, GMDX 72 and 73, the units are going beyond testing.

OrderPro Logistics recently announced that its subsidiary TransMex Logistics has launched its Passport Plus program.

At the Board of Directors meeting on March 15, 2004, Mr. J. Michael Carr was nominated to assume the position of President of Pioneer Railcorp by Mr. Guy Brenkman.

While volunteer firefighters continued to chase hot spots through a 90-year-old railroad locomotive repair shop in Colonie, New York, the site's owner was preparing Monday to demolish the cavernous building, town officials said.

A BNSF local train derailed Sunday in a remote desert area about a mile from Ludlow, California, with no reported injuries, fire officials said.

Union Pacific Railroad is seeking to abandon a 40-mile section of tracks between Elwood and Hiawatha, Kan.

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, the state-of-the-art computer system, Management Control System (MCS), will be implemented on Texas Mexican Railway (Tex-Mex).

Kansas City Southern announced today that the panel of the AAA International Centre for Dispute Resolution hearing the dispute between KCS and Grupo TMM, S.A. (TMM) issued its interim award on March 19, 2004 finding that the Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (Grupo TFM) Acquisition Agreement remains in force and is binding on KCS and TMM in accordance with its terms.

A 100-year-old railroad locomotive repair shop in Colonie, New York, burned throughout Sunday afternoon, creating pollution worries among neighbors.

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

Union Pacific employees have called Texas television station News Channel 9, wishing to be unidentified, with stories of exhaustion and long hours of work.

Intermodal freight on U.S. railroads registered a sharp 7.7 percent gain during the week ended March 13 in comparison with the corresponding week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported.

The California Zephyr Amtrak train will use an alternate route through Wyoming for 32 days this summer, instead of its normal route through Colorado, Amtrak announced Tuesday.