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Members of California's Niles Canyon Railway took their ex-Quincy Railroad steam locomotive out for a road test run on February 22 after it passed its annual inspection, and the little tank engine smoked it up.

Part-time residents of the Coachella Valley in California who dread the long drive back home have another option starting this month. They can send their cars by train.

CSX Transportation's Operations Department is calling for a number of measures to promote train accident prevention because of this year's disappointing performance in that area.

CSX Transportation will be getting a more uniformed look this year, as many of the leased locomotives on the property will be departing. As new GMLG-EMD SD70MACs arrive, CSXT's previous motive power shortage is being quelled and many of the leased EMDs have been tucked away in storage.

The British Columbia government was accused last November by Canadian Pacific Railway of leaking confidential competitive information to a rival railway during a fierce bidding war for ownership of BC Rail, The Vancouver Sun has reported.

As many as 25 rail crossings, stretching from Hancock County to Biloxi, Mississippi, will be closed for several days at a time as CSX Transportation conducts maintenance on its rail lines in South Mississippi.

Norfolk Southern Railway Company announced the opening of a new Thoroughbred Bulk Transfer (TBT) terminal in Greer, S.C. Transplastics, a division of Quality Carriers Inc., and a major provider of dry and liquid bulk transportation services in North America, will operate the terminal.

A move of low-sulfur Powder River Basin coal by Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific Railway helped a major energy producer reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in an environmentally sensitive area of coastal New Jersey.

Montgomery County, Maryland, fire officials believe a vehicle that burst into flames on CSX Transportation's Metropolitan Subdivision in Silver Spring early Tuesday morning was deliberately set ablaze.

On February 20, CSX Intermodal and Canadian National Railway began offering a new trailer service between CN's Memphis terminal and CSXI's intermodal facilities in Philadelphia; Baltimore; Boston and Springfield, Mass.; Syracuse, N.Y.; and Little Ferry, N.J. The railroads are providing the service via the Chicago gateway.

United Transportation Union Assistant President Paul C. Thompson will assume the duties of the Office of President of the UTU following the March 2 decision of the UTU International Executive Board to suspend from office President Byron A. Boyd Jr. The UTU Constitution provides for Thompson's elevation.

Federal mediators have asked Canadian National Railway and its striking union members to resume negotiations in Montreal on Wednesday.

Five or six Louisiana FBI agents, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office bomb squad, State Police, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office and paramedics all responded to a bomb scare in the Norco chemical complex Monday that turned out to be a misplaced fake explosive used as a training device.The drama unfolded after 09:00 CDT when an employee of Kansas City-Southern Railroad saw a "suspicious" package on Prospect Street near the railroad. The package turned out to be three, 6-inch-long PVC pipes tied together with electrical tape that resembled a pipe bomb, authorities said.

A Canadian National Railway derailment on the company's Bala Subdivision on Sunday, February 29, disrupted freight and passenger train traffic through Monday. At approximately 01:10 EDT on Sunday, CN train M45061-29 derailed three cars at milepost 38.74 in Newmarket, Ontario.

Engineers with Canadian National Railway have filed an unfair labor practices complaint against their employer. The complaint is connected to the ongoing strike by 5,000 CN maintenance workers who belong to the Canadian Auto Workers union. About 1,300 of those workers are based in Winnipeg.

VIA Rail chairman Jean Pelletier was fired Monday after belittling Olympic champion Myriam Bedard, a whistle-blower who questioned how VIA handled federal sponsorship money. "We've announced the termination of M. Pelletier's employment," Prime Minister Paul Martin confirmed in New York, where he was attending a United Nations event. The fates of two other Crown corporation executives were hanging in the balance for other reasons.

A Norfolk Southern freight train traveling from Cleveland down the corporation's Chicago Line didn't make it to Bellevue, as it planned, Sunday afternoon after one of its cars left the rails in Vermillion, Ohio.

Bad weather and a legal setback will leave Union Pacific's first-quarter earnings short of estimates, the company said Monday.

Freight congestion has spread across the Union Pacific Railroad system, especially in Southern California and the southwestern United States, raising concern about the effects on America's trade with Asia.

Beginning March 1, Oklahoma's "Heartland Flyer" northbound train, Train 822, will leave Fort Worth, Texas daily at 6:25 p.m. instead of 5:25 p.m., arriving in Oklahoma City at 10:39 p.m.

Nurseries face a truck shortage and hope boxcars can fill the gap. Oregon