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RailWorks Corporation, a leading provider of construction, maintenance and material solutions for the rail and transit industries, announced today that the sale of its products & services division marks the completion of a strategic divestiture program designed to focus on its core transit systems and track construction business.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) said Wednesday that the operations of its Mexican subsidiary Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab, S.A. de C.V. (FCCM) have been impacted by Hurricane Stan, a storm that hit the Chiapas region of Mexico during the first week of October.

Amtrak ridership increased in FY 2005 to 25,374,998, marking the third straight year of passenger gains for the national intercity passenger railroad, despite service disruptions that included major hurricanes in the south and five months without full Acela Express service in the northeast.

Ontario Northland President and CEO Steve Carmichael released information regarding temporary cost-saving measures being implemented as a result of the Kidd Creek Mine strike.

The Federal Railroad Administration has ordered all railroad companies to improve manual track switching procedures by Nov. 22 or be liable for civil penalties up to $27,000, the Transportation Department said Wednesday.

A Texarkana, Arkansas, attorney filed a lawsuit Wednesday that claims a Union Pacific train operator fell asleep causing a major accident Saturday morning.

Union Pacific Railroad will reduce nitrogen oxide emissions at its Houston and Fort Worth rail yards by introducing 10 new low-emission, hybrid locomotives.

Union Pacific is paying tribute to President George Herbert Walker Bush with a custom-painted locomotive.

The Music City Star, the region's first commuter rail system, will be put on indefinite hold if a last-ditch effort to secure a bank loan falls through today, Regional Transportation Authority officials said.

Canadian National Railway Co. posted a 19 percent increase in quarterly profit on Tuesday, saying higher revenue and a tax adjustment helped offset the impact of derailments and hurricanes. Canada's biggest railway reported net income of C$411 million, or C$1.47 a diluted share, for the third quarter ended September 30. That compared with a net profit of C$346 million, or C$1.19 a share, in the same three-month period of 2004.

Citing serious safety problems with track maintenance, employee training, bridge inspections, and highway-rail grade crossing warning systems, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has signed an agreement with the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (DM&E) to bring the railroad into compliance with federal rail safety regulations.

Local and federal investigators spent Monday in meetings to assess the timeline and the response to a tanker car that ruptured in Saturday morning

Fire destroyed a wooden bridge along the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern railroad's main line near Midland in western South Dakota.

Investigators are unsure what caused 28 train cars to derail Sunday, dumping nearly 3,000 tons of grain in eastern Iowa.

Flooding has disrupted Amtrak service in the Northeast Corridor.

Twenty one empty coal cars derailed at a Norfolk Southern yard in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday afternoon.

The engineer and conductor at Thursday's New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad train derailment initially refused to get the cargo listing for emergency officials, the Shohola, Pennsylvania, fire chief said in an interview.

A $601,000 check from Kansas City Southern may ease growing tensions between the railroad and the Vicksburg Bridge Commission, landlord of the county-owned U.S. 80 Mississippi River Bridge.

A freight-rate dispute between Western Canadian Coal Corp. and Canadian National Railway Co. is heading to federal court in a move that Western Canadian's CEO says could upset the established arbitration process.

Union Pacific Railroad has alleviated some fears Scott County, Missouri, officials had about a proposed track swap, but added more doubt for Sikeston's city government.

Railroad operator RailAmerica Inc. on Thursday said freight carloads on lines running at least one year rose 2.3 percent in September on increased shipment of metals.

Seven empty train cars and a tanker containing a flammable gas derailed Saturday in a switchyard, exploding in a ball of fire that killed one person and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes.

The deep rumbling of Union Pacific rail cars has always has been a familiar sound in Tempe, Arizona, in particular through the Clark Park neighborhood near Tempe St. Luke's Hospital and Tempe High School.

A Connecticut Department of Transportation official said Thursday that Northeastern states began preparing several years ago for the day when Amtrak would abandon the Northeast corridor

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell issued the following statement in response to a report that the Amtrak board voted to create a separate entity to operate the Northeast Corridor without consulting Governors throughout the Northeast.

Freight and passenger rail service resumed Thursday as the investigation continued into what caused an eastbound CSX Transportation freight train to derail the day before in Amsterdam, New York, officials said.

RailPower Technologies Corp. announced that Union Pacific Railroad is to apply the US$81 million it was awarded recently by the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan ('TERP') towards the purchase of 98 RailPower road switcher locomotives.

Members of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad board and local officials are waiting to hear whether the state will agree to fund $150,000 each year for the next three years for railroad maintenance projects.

The northbound CSX railroad tracks that service the Tri-Rail commuter traffic were shut down around 3:35 p.m. Thursday because of a small fire on a freight-train engine.

Amtrak passenger service between Albany and Syracuse, New York, remains on hold as repair work continues in the Mohawk Valley city where a freight train derailed earlier this week.