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An Amtrak passenger train hit a dump truck and derailed on Tuesday, killing two people, after the truck's driver apparently drove around a lowered crossing gate, police said.

Union Pacific says it will fight publicly and in court an order from the Environmental Protection Agency to handle the remaining cleanup for lead contamination in east Omaha, Nebraska.

The New York Susquehanna and Western Railway Corporation has been fined $2.5 million by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Conservation.

Norfolk Southern finally got its request: federal money to upgrade its main line to carry double-stacked freight containers between Roanoke, Virginia and Columbus, Ohio.

Two BNSF Railway trains collided in St. Louis, Missouri, near Interstate 55 and Richardson Road. One train derailed, with part of it falling into a train that was not moving. Traffic was slowing as drivers look at the derailment.

No injuries were reported in a train derailment Monday near Merck & Co. Inc. in Riverside, Pennsylvania.

Kansas City Southern Railroad has announced that its subsidiary, Tex Mex was recently awarded a Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan by the Federal Railroad Administration.

Maine will get nearly $1.2 billion in federal transportation funding over the next five years, including money to continue the Amtrak Downeaster route between Portland, ME and Boston, Massachusetts.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a failure by Canadian National Railway to properly maintain its track led to the derailment of an Amtrak train last year in Mississippi that killed one person and injured dozens.

A six-year, $286 billion transportation bill approved by the U.S. House and Senate on Friday appropriates $14 million to support the long-studied relocation of the rail yards in El Paso to Santa Teresa, Texas.

Union Pacific Chairman and CEO Dick Davidson unveiled on Saturday an unprecedented new Heritage series of locomotives that will honor the people and the railroads that have made the company what it is today.

Amtrak is restoring more of its high-speed Acela service out of Washington, D.C.

The Riverfront parking lot in Nashville, Tennessee, will be permanently closed starting Monday as construction begins on a new station for the Music City Star commuter rail, said Hanne Flippen, spokeswoman for Regional Transportation Authority.

Long-term structural changes in the grain handling industry has resulted in Canadian Pacific Railway updating its three- year network plan for discontinuance with the addition of 10 low-volume branch lines.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is urging BNSF Railway Co. to repeal higher grain-shipping rates that he says could drive Montana's 52-car grain elevators out of business.

Rail and transportation conglomerate CSX Corp. said second- quarter earnings rose more than 38 percent on higher surface shipping revenues, especially of coal.

CSX Transportation says a train derailed on its way from Wadesboro to Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Wednesday night.

Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad has canceled scheduled trains this weekend between Canton and Akron due to impassable track conditions near the Dressler Road NW crossing.

Funding for regional rail projects would get a boost under an idea floated by US Representative Barney Frank this week for New England lawmakers to pool the millions of dollars each receives annually for small projects in their districts into one large-scale regional transportation fund.

For years, Washington growers have faced a problem feeding East Coast customers hungry for the state's apples, potatoes and other fresh produce -- a lack of reliable, on-time transportation.

A train derailment Friday evening outside Randolph, Wisconsin, caused no injuries, although officials initially feared a sulfuric acid leak, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.

A bomb scare emptied New York's Pennsylvania Station yesterday and disrupted service on Amtrak trains, commuter trains, and city subways for about an hour.

Facing an increase in coal industry production, the Appalachian & Ohio Railroad plans to add up to 2,500 coal cars during the next five years.

Super Steel Schenectady Inc. has won a contract to build hybrid diesel-electric locomotives for a Canadian company.

Bombardier's rail arm has confirmed 194 options for commuter rail cars valued at about $425 million US, the company said Friday.

The State of Wisconsin has begun pursuing an unexpected opportunity to buy five miles of abandoned railroad right of way and use it to extend the slowly developing Hank Aaron State Trail west to Waukesha County. Along with the ongoing construction of a trail segment through the Menomonee Valley, the rail corridor purchase would represent solid progress on a project first discussed in 1993 and approved in 1997. Frustrated supporters had started to fear that development of the trail would take longer than the 23 years its namesake played in the major leagues.

A railroad employee was killed Friday morning in Ragland, Alabama, when a train car derailed in the shipping yard at National Cement Company, crushing him against a building wall.

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle on Friday directed the state Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to provide any additional funds needed to maintain current levels of operation for the Amtrak Hiawatha passenger rail service between Milwaukee and Chicago.

BNSF Railway has filed an $18 million lawsuit against the companies that designed and built a new locomotive refueling depot in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, that has leaked diesel into the main drinking water supply for a half-million residents.

California legislators should bar commuter railroads from using engines to push trains from behind, according to a severely injured passenger and relatives of people killed in a commuter train crash earlier this year.