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CN Rail train E20131-23 derailed 26 cars on Thursday, November 24, at approximately 09:10 EDT.

Montana Rail Link trains began rolling again over the company's mainline Sunday morning after five covered hoppers had derailed and spilled corn in Laurel, Montana on Saturday.

Grupo Mexico SA, the world's third-largest copper producer, purchased a Mexican railroad company from billionaire Carlos Slim, paying 3.26 billion pesos ($307 million) in stock of its transportation unit.

A Wednesday evening collision between a Metra commuter train and several vehicles at a grade crossing in Elmwood Park, Illinois, injuring at least sixteen people.

Defeating the Bush administration's request that Congress cut Amtrak off entirely, the House has voted to increase its subsidy for fiscal 2006 from $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds and BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced that a settlement has been reached for the sale of the state-owned Core railroad line to BNSF.

In a report filed on Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a 2003 Metra derailment was caused by a distracted engineer who failed to see a signal that would have told him to slow down.

A Union Pacific crew of three is reportedly being treated for injuries that they received this morning after their southbound train collided with an eastbound Norfolk Southern train at Control Point (CP-) Pence in Momence, Illinois.

Four cars derailed from a CN Rail train traveling through the Chicago, Illinois, suburb of Forest Park at 19:40 CDT Tuesday night.

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 50 million shares of its common stock through the end of 2015.

BNSF Railway Company has been honored with Network World Magazine's 2005 Enterprise All-Star Award.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company announced that its president, Orville R. Harrold, died unexpectedly Tuesday.

Following the Canadian Federal Judges' ruling that said former VIA Rail chairman Jean Pelletier should be reinstated to his post after being fired by the government a year earlier, Pelletier may be fired again.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees which together comprise the Rail Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will be picketing Amtrak's Union Station 3:00 pm on Monday, November 21, 2005 to protest a six-year stalemate in contract negotiations which if not resolved will lead to the shutdown of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

A CSX Transportation derailment in the Central Square neighborhood of Syracuse, New York, on Saturday kept clean-up crews busy through early Monday morning.

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation, on behalf of BNSF Railway Company, announced a $500,000, five-year commitment to Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) to support four Native American Clubs located on tribal lands in Montana and Minnesota.

Amtrak's Downeaster service between Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine will soon see the addition of a fifth train to the schedule through a deal reached with New Hampshire.

In a surprise move on Friday, a Canadian Federal Court judge ruled that formerly ousted VIA Rail Chairman Jean Pelletier was to be reinstated to that position.

In order to meet customer demand and move thousands of pulp logs to mills in Wisconsin and Minnesota, CN Rail is moving two-hundred pulpwood-hauling cars to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Union Pacific Corporation announced that James R. Young has been elected chief executive officer and president of the Corporation effective January 1, 2006.

The Fraser River Port Authority (FRPA) and Canadian Pacific Railway announced Thursday that they have signed a cooperation agreement to enhance service through the port and coordinate investments in infrastructure to capture growth opportunities in global trade.

National Coal Corp. is seeking to buy a 42-mile branch line from Norfolk Southern Corp. that runs from Scott County to Anderson County, Tennessee, near Clinton, in order to haul coal and possibly carry sight-seeing excursions.

Metro-North Railroad has launched a full-scale attack on one of its biggest foes: autumn leaves.

Yakima County, Washington's decision to lease a busy Lower Valley rail line to Columbia Basin Railroad Co. will stand.

An overheated axle part on one car triggered the derailment of a CSX freight train in Amsterdam, New York, on Oct. 12, the freight railroad announced on Friday. The problem was with a part known as a journal, which acts like an axle bearing, said Meg Scheu, a CSX spokeswoman in Jacksonville, Fla. When the journal failed, 18 cars derailed before the train was brought to a stop, she said.

Mexican rail firm TFM, owned by US company Kansas City Southern, is to build a rail terminal at L

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that the City of New York acquired title to the High Line elevated rail viaduct from CSX Transportation, Inc. this month.

On Wednesday, commuters traveling through 30th Street Station in Philadelphia were greeted by rail workers warning of a possible Amtrak shutdown in their future.

Authorities say residents here were forced to evacuate their homes in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, after a train derailed Tuesday evening.

About six to eight Somerset Railroad coal hoppers on a Norfolk Southern-hauled train derailed early this morning in Homestead, Pennsylvania, some spilling coal and others remaining upright.