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Cedar American Rail Holdings, Inc., which operates the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (DM&E) and the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad (IC&E), announced that Clyde Mittleider has been promoted to chief transportation officer, effective August 16, at the company's headquarters in Sioux Falls, S.D. He succeeds Richard D. Awe, who retired. John Gabel has been promoted to the newly created position of assistant vice president Customer Service and Equipment Management, effective August 1. Also located in Sioux Falls, Mr. Gabel's new post includes responsibility for a fleet of more than 9,000 freight cars, car orders, distribution and leasing.

Although Florida's Palm Beach County didn't experience severe wind and rain as a result of Hurricane Rita, some residents found themselves searching for another way to get around as officials shut down Tri-Rail on Tuesday.

Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. said Tuesday it will prepay about $655,000 in property and other real estate taxes to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Work on expansion of the Seven-Mile siding near Boharm, Saskatchewan, by the Canadian Pacific Railway is complete.

Officials investigating last weekend's fatal Metra derailment say signals warned the train to slow down for an upcoming tracks switch, but the engineer at the controls says he saw a green light indicating he could continue at 70 mph, according to a union official.

A nine-car derailment of a Union Pacific Railroad train closed the rail line through the Feather River Canyon until workers can replace about 600 feet of track near Belden, California, said UP spokesman Mark Davis.

The Tennessee Valley Railroad will run a special Dixie Land Excursion train runs from Chattanooga, Tenneseee to LaFayette, Georgia, as part of the company's

Indiana Eastern Railroad has signed a lease with CSX Transportation to take over a 43-mile stretch of track between Richmond and Fernald, Ohio.

A commuter train was going almost 60 mph above the speed limit just before it derailed, killing two people and injuring dozens, the acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. Mark Rosenker said the Metra train was traveling at 69 mph and should not have been going faster than 10 mph when it switched tracks at a crossover just before jumping the tracks Saturday.

Alaska state and local officials have signed an agreement to work with the Alaska Railroad Corp. to develop a plan to relieve traffic congestion caused by trains stopping in Wasilla.

At least one person was killed early Saturday morning after a garbage truck broke through a concrete barrier along the side of an elevated highway and dropped onto a railway tanker car below.

A commuter train derailed Saturday on Chicago's South Side, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, some of them critically.

Federal investigators are trying to determine if excess speed may have caused the commuter train derailment that killed two passengers and injured more than 80 others, the acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. Mark Rosenker said investigators are examining three data recorders recovered from the locomotive and cars to determine if the train was traveling faster than the speed limit when it switched tracks at a crossover just before it derailed Saturday.

An idle and decaying rail line linking Yakima and Naches, Washington, has been granted another stay of execution.

Faced with complaints from some California coastal cities, the North County Transit District tabled a proposed policy on creating "quiet zones" along its north-south rail corridor.

CSX Corp. on Thursday said it expects third-quarter operating income to be hurt by $25 million in business interruption and other costs from Hurricane Katrina.

Environmental hurdles and neighborhood concerns surrounding two plans for a new rail line into the Port of Vancouver, Washington, could vanish if an emerging third option becomes the preferred route.

The Board of Directors of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation announced the election to its Board of Gen. Donald G. Cook, 59, who retired August 1, 2005, as Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

VIA Rail is hoping a number of changes and initiatives aimed at bolstering ridership and revenue has it on track for recovery, a railway spokesperson says.

A power company executive said he is convinced a $1 billion coal-fired power plant using next-generation technology will be constructed in West Virginia.

At least one person is dead and 83 people were injured in a commuter train derailment Saturday morning on Chicago's South Side, emergency officials said.

The Royal Gorge Route Railroad announced Thursday it has purchased three historic full-length observation-dome cars from Holland America Line Inc.

For the past six years, Railroad Museum of Oklahoma has taken hundreds of people for a ride

After hearing protests from Capitol Hill, Amtrak has backed away from a plan to impose steep fare increases next week on its most frequent riders.

Come next fall, NJ Transit rail riders will have another option as they board the train: Upstairs or downstairs?

Surcharges intended to defray rising fuel costs are turning large profits for the BNSF Railway, a spokesman for North Dakota's grain elevators believes.

Back in the 1960s, there were detailed plans in place to relocate the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) yards from downtown Sudbury, Ontario, and build a huge retail and residential project called Elgin Square. Last week, members of the Downtown Village Development Corporation (DVDC), along with city officials, met with three representatives of CPR to revisit the idea.

Georgia's Transportation Board gave the commuter rail line to Lovejoy more backing at its monthly meeting Thursday, passing a resolution that puts a majority of the board squarely behind its ongoing negotiations.

CSX Corporation said it is continuing to effectively provide rail service to its customers through the previously announced rerouting of traffic around storm-affected areas of the Gulf Coast.

One Union Pacific Railroad freight train collided with a second train that was stopped on a siding in Shepard, Texas, early Thursday, killing one crew member and derailing more than 20 cars, a company spokesman said.