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A train car being loaded yesterday afternoon broke away and plunged into the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, officials said.

With the London bombings fresh in their minds, police along Amtrak's New York-Washington corridor joined forces Monday to begin patrolling the train platforms and watching for suspicious activity along the tracks.

The CN Rail train wreck that sent thousands of litres of a toxic chemical into a British Columbia river on Friday does not appear to have been "track related," a senior federal accident investigator said on Monday.

Congress has approved $1 billion in funding for the Chicago area's first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail service.

Because of Gov. Edward G. Rendell's commitment to stimulating economic development across Pennsylvania and preserving rail-freight service, the commonwealth has doubled its investment in rail-freight assistance funding from $4.25 million to $8.5 million since he took office.

More trains will be rolling through northwestern Oklahoma as BNSF Railway adds a second track in the state's northwestern corner.

A faulty section of track may be the cause of an Alberta train derailment, according to Canadian National Rail officials who are scrambling to clean up a massive oil spill that has killed dozens of birds and put a popular lake off-limits.

The FBI is investigating an alleged "sabotage" fire set last weekend on a Carbon County, Utah, railroad trestle as an act of terrorism.

BNSF Railway said it will slightly reduce a planned increase in shipping rates charged at Montana's 52-car grain elevators, but state leaders said the railroad's concession is minimal.

CN Rail apologized to residents beside a popular Alberta lake who saw their land and water fouled by a fuel oil spill after a derailment -- and who had blocked the repaired rail line in protest.

Nearly a year after a deadly accident in east Toledo, Ohio, the city is now planning to sue Norfolk Southern railroad.

An Amtrak train collided with a dump truck crossing the tracks in Somis, California, injuring 20 people, two of them seriously, officials said.

The Bellefonte (Pennsylvania) Historical Railroad may not have taken its last trip after all.

Dozens of protestors blocked a CN Rail crossing Friday to express their anger at what they called the company's poor responce to a freight train derailment and oil spill on the lake where they live. Residents of Wabamun, Alberta, 30 miles west of Edmonton, said CN failed to show up to a scheduled meeting to update them on efforts to clean up the lake and keep fuel oil from spreading.

The management of the Maryland's MARC commuter train service has apologized to its Penn Line passengers for a series of "major service disruptions" as a result of malfunctioning locomotives.

A four-engine train with 68 cars transporting molten sulfur partially slid off the tracks Friday, blocking traffic and requiring a chemical spill check, Boulder, Colorado, police said.

A CN Rail freight trail derailed about 15 miles north of Squamish, British Columbia, Friday, sending nine cars plunging into the Cheakamus River canyon and causing a toxic spill.

The Alaska Railroad has worked for the past eight months to tighten security measures along the state's 611 miles of track and now it is asking the public for help.

Kansas City Southern today reported a net loss for its second quarter on much higher revenues, citing charges related to buying majority control of TFM, S.A. de C.V., Mexico

The company that operates the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad expects to add 600 new grain cars to its fleet to handle harvest demands in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, a railroad official said Tuesday.

Biggar, Saskatchewan, has been a railway town for as long as anyone can remember, but now the Canadian National Railway is planning to close the town's terminal and make tracks for Saskatoon.

Canadian National Railway Co. has continued to roll in with strong year-over-year results, propelled by recent acquisitions, a rise in Asian imports and efficient management.

CN Rail crews are cleaning up fuel oil after 43 train cars derailed near Edmonton, Alberta, early Wednesday morning. No one was injured.

All Amtrak trains traveling between New York City and Philadelphia were canceled yesterday evening, inconveniencing thousands of commuters and other travelers.

Union Pacific Railroad is teaming with the Eastern railroad CSX Transportation on a coast-to-coast expedited train aimed at taking business away from trucks.

All Tri-Rail trains are expected to be back on regular schedule today following a bomb scare in the Delray Beach station Wednesday morning that temporarily delayed them, according to Tri-Rail spokeswoman Bonnie Arnold.

A stretch of Canadian Pacific Railway's Freight Maine Line in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, closed since a derailment Monday is open again.

Could it be that Brownville, Maine, will become home to a 550-room, four-star hotel, 45,000-square-foot convention center, spa facility, 25,000-square-foot conference center, golf course, golf school and clubhouse, three restaurants and 400 time-share units?

Following a five-day disruption in service due to track conditions and the derailment of a freight train along the Hudson Bay Railway line between Thompson and Churchill, Manitoba, VIA Rail Canada's passenger train service between Winnipeg and Churchill, and The Pas and Pukatawagan will resume normal operations beginning Wednesday.

Clean up crews were hard at work Tuesday afternoon cleaning up a train derailment in eastern Williamson County, Texas.