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Canadian National Railway Co. has reached a tentative contract deal with unionized conductors in the northern U.S. Midwest, the company and union said on Tuesday.

The hike in diesel fuel costs helped send Providence and Worcester Railroad Co. third quarter profits plummeting 85 percent, according to the railroad's earnings released Monday. The Providence and Worcester Railroad Co. reported a net income for the quarter of $702,000, compared to net income of $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2004.

Several sales and marketing assignments at BNSF Railway Company were announced by John Lanigan, BNSF's executive vice president and chief marketing officer:

RailAmerica, Inc. reported its freight carloads for the month and ten months ended October 31, 2005.

CSX Corp. executives may want to try their luck on a game show.

Days after Amtrak's board of directors fired the railroad's president, the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Amtrak said Tuesday that the board might have acted illegally because it lacked a quorum.

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 picketed Amtrak's Newark Penn Station at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15, 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 Canadian railroad legend is gambling that folks are willing to shell out $50 a pop to be pulled by vintage steam locomotive between Tacoma and Frederickson.

The company that manages the cash-strapped Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad has pulled out, causing the layoffs of all but nine machinists.

Thirteen days is too long for Tri-Rail to be out of service after a hurricane, its leaders said Monday, agreeing to develop a plan for a quicker recovery after the next storm hits South Florida.

A two-train collision caused a partial-derailment and stopped all traffic on the BNSF railroad in Fort Madison, Iowa, for several hours last Thursday.

A federally funded test of new technology designed to prevent train accidents in dark, or non-signalled, rail territory by electronically monitoring the position of railroad switches is underway, announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.

Two years after canceling a $700-million investment in VIA Rail, the federal government is considering an increase in funding for the passenger rail service.

Florida East Coast Railway has been awarded the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Innovative Carrier of the Year Award for 2004.

North American railways are poised to regain large chunks of the freight business they started losing to the trucking industry in the late 1970s, the head of Canada's largest rail company says.

Florida East Coast Railway has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase four (4) 4300 horsepower Electro-Motive Diesel SD70M-2s for 2006 delivery.

As Norfolk Southern Corporation approaches its 175th birthday, employees are talking up the benefits of rail transportation.

G.I. Jobs magazine has named Union Pacific Railroad the nation's top Military Friendly Employer for 2005.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta announced the Department of Transportation would implement recommendations to strengthen its oversight of Amtrak in light of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found widespread managerial problems within the company.

Amtrak's board of directors on Wednesday fired President David Gunn, saying the debt-laden rail carrier needs "a leader with vision and experience." Gunn has struggled to maintain Amtrak service amid a sinking financial picture and a push by the White House and some in Congress to recraft it as a group of regional inter-city companies.

Canadian Pacific Railway announced it has executed an agreement to sell its 92.3-mile track from Fayette, which is near Terre Haute, to Bedford, Ind., to Indiana Rail Road Co.

Thousands of children from communities throughout Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec will be able to ride the train to the North Pole for a visit with Santa Claus thanks to a unique and cooperative arrangement between Ontario Northland, the Ontario Northland Benefit Association and three employee unions.

A sleepy Sunday afternoon in Prosperity, South Carolina, turned into a jumble of traffic reroutes and flashes of red railroad-crossing lights after a CSX train derailed there.

Montana barley growers won't be hit with December rail rate increase after all, farm groups and railroad officials said Friday.

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell yesterday blasted her transportation commissioner for failing to get 33 rail cars on track to expand service on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line.

CSX Transportation Inc. has quietly chugged out of Saginaw, Michigan, taking most of its jobs with it and selling its area operations to Saginaw Bay Southern Railway Co.

Replacing aging train switches in Richmond, Virginia's congested Acca Yard made the first cut of new rail projects recommended for state funding.

If the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's application for a $2.5 billion federal loan for a three-year coal train project is approved and shareholders go along, "we could be laying track next year," Kevin Schieffer, DM&E president, said Saturday.

Tri-Rail trains resumed service on Friday morning on a Saturday schedule, with a two-hour delay between trains.

Union Pacific Railroad will test technology next year that could lead to one-person train crews on its coal route in western Nebraska, writes Stacie Hamel in the Omaha World-Herald.