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A freight train broke apart in three locations along train tracks nestled next to the Delaware River shortly after noon Thursday.

Two trains derailed in the British Columbia Interior within about an hour Tuesday.

A Union Pacific train derailed early Tuesday morning near Kremmling, Colorado.

Northern Energy & Mining is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Transportation Agreement with CN Rail for the shipping of its coal from its load-out facility at Tumbler Ridge to Vancouver's Ridley Island Terminal.

A long-sought-after, multimillion-dollar project to relocate the Norfolk Southern Railroad out of the city of Orangeburg, South Carolina, while providing a pedestrian overpass over U.S. Highway 601 for local college students, is being shopped out to potential engineering firms for study.

Union Pacific crews are busy trying to get rail lines up and running after a coal train derailed nine miles east of Bridgeport, Nebraska, early Wednesday.

Severe thunderstorms near Topeka, Kan., last weekend forced Union Pacific to close four rail lines that normally carry coal from Wyoming

Passenger train service to and from New Orleans will resume next week for the first time since Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana, Amtrak officials said.

A Boise, Idaho-based locomotive manufacturer won its largest contract ever this week to build 27 new commuter locomotives for GO Transit, a regional transit system in Ontario, Canada.

Union Pacific Railroad has completed a four-year, $16 million project to install new, high reflective crossbuck warning signs at more than 18,000 railroad crossings across Union Pacific's 23-state system.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reached a settlement with Norfolk Southern Railway over a suit related to age discrimination, the commission said Thursday.

Buckled track caused the derailment of a 95-car train on Aug. 15 at West Hunt Road and Armona Road in Maryville, Tennessee.

Alaska Railroad workers won't have to start heavy equipment outside during winter's deep cold anymore, thanks to a new building being constructed in Cantwell by the Alaska Railroad.

Wabtec announced that its MotivePower subsidiary has been awarded a contract to build 27 new commuter locomotives for GO Transit for US$112 million.

BNSF Railway has sold a 72-mile stretch of track in northeastern North Dakota that has been plagued with flooding and an unstable rail bed.

An investigator for the Federal Railroad Administration is helping dissect events that led to a fatal accident involving a CSX train and a construction crew on Monday in Evansville, Indiana.

Norfolk Southern Corporation Oct. 3 reopened its intermodal terminal in New Orleans.

A Metra spokeswoman says the commuter rail service has suspended an engineer and a conductor without pay for speeding near the site of last month's fatal train derailment.

Alcoa announced Tuesday that it has finalized the sale of four railroads to RailAmerica Transportation Corp., a subsidiary of RailAmerica Inc. for a purchase price of $77.5 million in cash.

At least 17 cars of a BNSF Railway train went off the tracks northwest of Casselton, North Dakota, but no one was hurt.

Failure of CN Rail to inspect and maintain its tracks led to the fatal derailment of Amtrak's City of New Orleans near Flora, Mississippi, in April 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Thursday.

Many of the 25 Brookings, South Dakota, residents who packed Thursday night

Additional testing of the railroad signals on the Rock Island District Line indicate they were working properly on Sept. 17, even though the engineer told federal investigators he "believed he saw clear signals" to proceed straight, not switch tracks, a federal report said Thursday.

Canadian Pacific Railway said it'll admit liability in the death of a North Dakota man that followed a train derailment in 2002 which sent a deadly cloud of anhydrous ammonia over the city of Minot, N.D.

Norfolk Southern Corporation named Charles W. (Wick) Moorman to succeed David R. Goode as chief executive officer, effective November 1.

Norfolk Southern Corporation has named its midtown Atlanta office building the David R. Goode Building, in honor of the company

Nortech Systems Inc., an electronics manufacturing services contract provider, said Wednesday it has received an order of an undisclosed size from General Electric Co.'s rail business to supply parts for a video-camera system used for recording railroad accidents.

Two trains running on the Kansas City Southern Railroad line through McKinney, Texas, derailed early Wednesday morning sending emergency response officials and clean-up crews racing to the scene.

An Amtrak Acela train collided Wednesday with a car at a crossing in Waterford, Connecticut, killing two and causing major delays on the Northeast Corridor line.

A study to determine how the Florida East Coast Railway corridor could best be used in an expanded South Florida transit system is finally under way.