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A BNSF Railway grain train derailed in Mulhall, Oklahoma at 12:30 CST on Friday afternoon.

Twenty-seven cars of a Wichita Falls-bound coal train derailed in Clarendon, Texas at 06:00 CST on Thursday morning.

Norfolk Southern Corporation plans to spend $1.146 billion in 2006 for capital improvements to its railroad operations and subsidiaries.

Wabtec Corporation announced that its MotivePower subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Four Canadian freight and passenger railways were singled out by their peers Wednesday night for their outstanding initiatives to enhance the environment and improve their safety performance at work and in the communities where they operate.

CN Rail has been fined $75,000 after pleading guilty to one of three criminal charges in a derailment in northeastern B.C. that killed two men in 2003.

New York Governor George E. Pataki announced a five-year, $100 million rail funding program that will help New York railroads make infrastructure and capacity improvements, which will modernize the State's rail network and keep it competitive.

Passenger rail is helping Canada meet tough targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and proving itself as a sustainable passenger option for the future, VIA Rail Canada told observers and delegates attending the UN Climate Change Convention in Montreal yesterday.

CN Rail is again on the hot seat in British Columbia after experiencing an eleventh derailment Monday on former BC Rail trackage.

A BNSF employee was fatally injured on Sunday in a switching accident south of Burlington, Iowa.

Kansas City Southern announced that it has changed the name of its Mexican subsidiary, TFM, S.A. de C.V., to "Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A. de C.V." (KCSM).

Norfolk Southern Corporation and New York Air Brake Corporation today announced an agreement to begin deploying a locomotive computer system to improve the fuel efficiency and safe handling of trains in long-haul operations.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced that carload customers now can also obtain instantaneous interline prices at http://www.bnsf.com/ for shipments originating on BNSF and terminating on the Canadian Pacific Railway and Norfolk Southern Railway.

Early rail, clothing, tools, locomotive parts, signage, photographs and advertisements are a few of the artifacts that will be on display when the Norfolk Southern Museum opens Dec. 5.

Kansas City Southern and Norfolk Southern Corporation have agreed to form a joint venture that will increase capacity resulting in improved service on the Meridian Speedway between Meridian, Miss. and Shreveport, La.

CN Rail said on Friday it will boost its capital spending by 9 percent in 2006 as the country's biggest railway company looks to improve its infrastructure and purchase equipment.

A special train will operate today to the Army-Navy football game. The Liberty Limited will be operated by Amtrak and Conrail from Washington Union Station to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company announced that, at a special meeting of the Board of Directors, P. Scott Conti was appointed to serve as a Director of the Company until the next meeting of shareholders and was elected to succeed Orville R. Harrold as President of the Company.

An early-season blizzard that impacted Nebraska and the plains, has moved out and now railroads in the region are trying to do the same with stranded trains.

The National Transportation Safety Board's report on Norfolk Southern's Graniteville, South Carolina collision, derailment and subsequent chlorine gas leak, has recommended changes in handling of loaded haz-mat tank cars.

In a rare request from a commuter rail operator, Florida's Tri-Rail is asking customers to stay away for the next week.

CN Rail announced that employees represented by the Algoma Central Association of Railway Unions have ratified a five-year labor contract with the company.

CN Rail says it will be increasing its service to and from the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, following the announcment that China Shipping will introduce new cargo service to the port.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced that an agreement has been reached with the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) to sell the nearly 300-mile BNSF main rail line between Belen, New Mexico and Trinidad, Colorado.

The 2005 CPR Holiday Train is not only bigger and brighter as it goes from community to community raising money, food and awareness for North American food banks, the train is also more dynamic in cyberspace.

Maersk Sealand is bringing ships back to the Port of Halifax with a new service and under a new name.

Canada has agreed in a principle to lease 12,000 grain cars to the Farmer Rail Car Coalition for C$205 million, Transport Canada said on Thursday. A final approval of the lease-purchase agreement is expected in 2006, once the farmer-owned consortium has an agreement with Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific for access to railway lines.

Federal investigators continue to examine how a pair of freight trains, one Union Pacific and the other Norfolk Southern, collided at a diamond crossing in Momence, Illinois on Thanksgiving morning.

Chicago South Shore's commuter rail line is seeking a fare hike during the next two years to keep up with the railroad's increased health insurance and fuel prices.

BNSF Railway has said that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court blaming an Iowa locomotive engineer for a November 10 collision that caused more than $2 million in damage.