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Four cars derailed Tuesday on the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Virginia, causing a train to stop and tying up traffic in Louisa most of the day.

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. President and CEO Koichi Kondo presented the company's Premier Partner Award to BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) of Fort Worth, Texas for excellence in rail transportation service.

Two trains collided early Wednesday morning in West Springfield, Massachusetts, causing several cars to derail on CSX Transportation's Boston Subdivision.

A Canadian National freight train left the tracks in British Columbia's Fraser Valley on Wednesday, the latest in a series of derailments that have beset the railway. CN spokesman Jim Feeney said the westbound train consisting of two locomotives and 97 cars derailed near Cheam View. The train was loaded with dry sulphur. "The crew of the train is unhurt," Feeney said. CN officials and local emergency crews were dispatched to the scene, he added. B.C. Ministry of the Environment spokesman Max Cleevely said the derailment involved nine cars and was about 300 metres from the Fraser River.

The 100 passengers aboard a North Carolina safety educational train Wednesday were supposed to see the hazards of railroad crossings - not experience them firsthand.

Norfolk Southern Corp. said its rail operations in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi are returning to normal in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the exception of the immediate New Orleans area.

An evacuation plan via Amtrak train for New Orleans residents trapped by Hurricane Katrina's devastation and floodwaters is being worked out by Amtrak president David Gunn, Meridian Mayor John Robert Smith said today.

With the recently enacted Wisconsin State budget providing a big boost in money for rail projects, the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. is planning improvements on key segments of the system on which it operates. The budget signed by Gov. Jim Doyle last month contains $12 million over the next two years to improve the state-owned rail system and make new acquisitions, Wisconsin & Southern community development manager Ken Lucht said Monday.

Gilbert H. Lamphere, a CN director since March 1998, has resigned from the Company's board of directors for personal reasons.

An elaborate effort to secure and clean up a sizable corn spill along railroad tracks in Montana's Middle Fork Flathead River corridor is under way and may take up to three months to complete, a state bear management specialist said Tuesday.

Two tanker cars carrying a highly flammable liquid jumped the tracks late Tuesday, forcing evacuations of 40 to 50 nearby homes, authorities said.

A Mason City, Wisconsin, man was killed Tuesday when the semitrailer he was driving collided with a train in Clyman, WI.

A group pushing to build a high-speed commuter rail line from Wyoming to New Mexico hopes to ask voters for their approval in November 2008, the group's president said Wednesday.

A $12 million civil judgment rendered last Thursday against Union Pacific Railroad will be contested, a company spokesman said.

CN Rail and the B.C. government are facing demands for comprehensive reviews following the devastating caustic soda spill in the Cheakamus River on Aug. 5.

Farmers and manufacturing companies that use Washington's Tacoma Rail to ship their products will be able to move heavier loads and get them to market faster as a result of $2.4 million in federal grants to improve the railroad tracks, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum has been chosen as one of three worldwide finalists by Tourism Cares for Tomorrow and Smithsonian magazine for the annual Sustainable Tourism Award for Preservation.

An Orr, Minnesota, City Council resolution that limits Canadian National Railway trains to a 30 mph speed limit while within city boundaries is now state law.

For the second time in less than a month, a CN Rail train has derailed in Alberta on the railroad's Edson Subdivision.

Maine state workers have begun clearing brush and repairing the rail bed on the line that runs between Lisbon and Lewiston.

Just off U.S. 2, about two miles east of the Village of Danville, Vermont, 100 feet of unused railroad tracks hang in the air, the wooden ties still attached to the steel rails 25 feet above a small stream.

One of two rail lines reopened Saturday afternoon after 21 cars of a freight train derailed near the southern border of Glacier National Park the day before.

Officials of the Altamont Commuter Express, fed up with constant delays along the Union Pacific Railroad rail lines the service leases, are looking elsewhere for a new route into California's Silicon Valley for the commuter line's 1,300 daily riders.

Union Pacific Railroad plans to open a $100 million international intermodal terminal today that is expected to significantly boost Asian imports coming through the Dallas, Texas, area.

It has been a month of high-profile train derailments for Canadian National.

Amtrak's President says he believes the nation's rail passenger service is going to survive but says the fight over its future is far from over.

Under pressure to reduce air pollution at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, the two port agencies and their railroad operator have reached a deal to replace 18 polluting locomotives with cleaner models.

An 18-wheeler wrapped around the engine of a northbound Kansas City Southern train last Wednesday afternoon south of Neosho, Misssouri, triggering a derailment, fire and diesel spill.

Railroad officials say higher gas prices and popular weekend events in Chicago are filling South Shore commuter trains between northwestern Indiana and Chicago.

The whistle of a train approaching a crossing may disturb neighbors in communities near railway tracks.