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Canadian Pacific Railway's $160 million Western Corridor Expansion Program is on track with 70 per cent of the work completed and more than half of the individual projects concluded.

A contribution of $1 million to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina was announced today by BNSF Railway Company, along with an offer to the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to provide railroad transportation in support of hurricane relief and recovery efforts. The contribution by the railway, a subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation , will be made to the American Red Cross via the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation.

Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad will be hauling relief supplies into the hard-hit Gulf Coast, the company said Friday.

The nation's two largest railroads escaped the worst of Hurricane Katrina.

A Canadian federal safety agency has raised concerns about railway workers who are allowed to drive freight trains even though they're not qualified locomotive engineers.

Union Pacific Railroad announced Friday it will begin replacing 50,000 cross ties in the Pritchett, Texas, area in October.

Cargill Inc., the world's largest agricultural company, was forced to halt shipments from its four grain terminals in Louisiana after flooding from Hurricane Katrina led the U.S. Coast Guard to ban ocean-going vessels.

Milelong coal trains rumble through prairie towns every day, raising little notice unless blowing a horn or stopping traffic at a crossing.

CSX Corp. said late last week it is continuing freight service to areas outside those affected by Hurricane Katrina by rerouting traffic through western gateways like East St. Louis, Ill.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Montgomery, Ala. For CSX, the storm's biggest impact was along a 100-mile stretch of track between Pascagoula, Miss., and New Orleans. The affected area includes several bridges.

Passenger trains will join the growing number of buses and aircraft being used to evacuate residents from New Orleans starting as early as midnight, Friday, September 2, Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta announced.

As the nation marks Labor Day and celebrates the American worker, Union Pacific is helping to put more Americans to work.

Rich and Karen Lucas of Sparta Road wanted to know more about the expansion of Enlow Fork Mine in Southwestern Pennsylvania and how it would affect not only their property but also their way of life.

Rafters, river guides and an off-duty State Park maintenance supervisor rescued an injured CSX railroad worker along the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania, Sunday afternoon.

Commuters' nightmares are no longer confined to highway backups. They also include the growing drain on bank accounts.

Positive Train Control moved another step forward thanks to a $6.4-million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to the Railroad Research Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Adrian & Blissfield Railroad Company, headquartered in Westland, MI, announced significant increases for dinner train and automotive and fertilizer freight service for the 2nd Quarter 2005 ending July 31 over First Quarter 2005, and a slight increase in overall railroad business for the first six months ending over the comparable period for 2004.

E. Spencer Miller, who fought to maintain the independence of the Maine Central Railroad during his more than 25 years as its president, died at his home Aug. 12. He was in his late 90s.

Come on, come on, do the locomotion this weekend and celebrate American railroading at the B&O Railroad Museum.

A Tennessee Valley Authority plan to resume coal train deliveries through Sumner County was derailed Wednesday, sending waves of relief among local officials and residents who feared the move would jeopardize their safety, health and economic growth.

Wabtec Global Services, a division of Wabtec Corporation, was awarded two three-year, automatically renewing contracts by Kansas City Southern (KCS) and Norfolk Southern (NS) to implement wireless railcar maintenance and billing (CRB) systems this year.

The Canadian Pacific Railway is asking a judge to dismiss all claims from a January 2002 derailment that spilled more than 220,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia and sent a deadly chemical cloud over Minot.

The grain elevators that take in corn, soybeans and wheat from Midwest farmers and the railroads that move it are still waiting to see what impact Hurricane Katrina will have on them.

Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced that as of 10:00 CDT Wednesday night, August 31, The Kansas City Southern Railway Company's (KCSR) Meridian Speedway line between Meridian, Miss., and Shreveport, La., is open and operating.

A spokesman for the Canadian National Railway defended the company Thursday after the seventh derailment in one month, saying the company has the best accident record compared to other rail lines in North America. "Our safety performance compares favourably with the rest of the industry," said Mark Hallman. He was commenting after a train derailed Wednesday night between Chilliwack and Abbotsford, B.C., and 10 cars spilled dry sulphur near the Fraser River.

Norfolk Southern has restored service between Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama and between Birmingham and Meridian, Mississippi to include Meridian.

CSX Corporation said that it is continuing freight transportation service to customers outside of the immediate Gulf Coast storm area by rerouting rail traffic through its well-established western gateways, including East St. Louis, Ill., Memphis, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala., as well as through its various TRANSFLO and Intermodal facilities.

An employee of Union Pacific Railroad was the victim in Tuesday morning's rail crossing accident in the town of Clyman in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

North America's major railroads have informed the Surface Transportation Board that they appear to be headed for another record level of business this year and are prepared to handle it as well as or better than they handled last year's surge.

Texas-Mexican Railroad and Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) have been selected to receive RRIF (Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing) loans from the Federal Railroad Administration.

The Greenbrier Companies, announced an agreement under which its Greenbrier Management Services (GMS) division is providing car hire payables processing services to Florida East Coast Railway, L.L.C. (FEC).