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Travel on Amtrak's northernmost line is getting an upgrade

CN Rail and the union representing the railway's Canada-based rail traffic controllers (train dispatchers) announced the ratification of a two-year contract extension by the union's members.

Norfolk Southern Railroad officials are investigating an incident that originated at the BASF Plant in Spartanburg county, South Carolina.

A panel of experts says Southeastern North Carolina should once again get passenger rail service.

The company that was planning to abandon the section of railway between MacIntyre Lake and Sydney is nearing completion of a deal with the Province of Nova Scotia that would secure its future for five years.

The CN Rail line through Fort St. James, British Columbia, could see upgrades in the near future.

The State of Maine may take legal action against Guilford Rail System for a string of 24 brush fires on May 13 that stretched through three counties.

Amtrak said Monday that it has resumed limited service with its Acela high-speed trains between New York and Washington.

The Ontario government is increasing passenger space on GO trains by investing $143 million to purchase 27 new, more powerful, fuel-efficient locomotives, Transportation Minister Harinder Takhar announced.

The union representing maintenance employees at CN Rail's Symington Yard in Winnepeg, Manitoba, has won what it says is a landmark ruling that prevents the railroad from sending Canadian-based locomotives to its own repair facilities in the US.

Two more bodies were recovered from the burned wreckage of two train locomotives on Monday and authorities said the search continued for a fourth missing crew member.

At the behest of Washington's King County Executive Ron Sims, the County Council has agreed to put down $3.5 million in earnest money toward the purchase of a 47-mile rail corridor owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.

Half the nation's head-on train collisions this year have taken place in Mississippi

Washington County, Indiana

A Kansas City Southern train derailed early Wednesday morning and dumped its corny contents on 39th Street between Mill Creek and Kauloosa avenues in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Seasonal passenger trains could be clanging beside long stretches of the Kennebec River between Brunswick and Augusta, Maine, in two years.

CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp., the biggest railroads in the eastern United States, said they are being helped by rising imports that are countering any slowdown in the U.S. industrial economy.

Trade with China isn't just about cheaper clothes and computers. It's also reshaping and reinvigorating one of the linchpins of the American economy, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

The United Transportation Union is at odds with Burlington Northern and Santa Fe now, and is poised to do battle with the railroad industry in general, over what it calls a violation of a good-faith agreement signed in leaner times.

A blaze continued late Sunday night near the tiny community of Anding after the second head-on freight train collision in Mississippi in two weeks left one CN Rail crew member dead and three others missing and presumed dead.

It's a big day for some Virginia Railway Express passengers as the commuter rail service adds some longer trains to its roster in an effort to get more people into seats on the most crowded trains.

After nearly half a century of giving Hermann Park, Texas, visitors a tangible reminder of Houston's railroad legacy, the ancient Southern Pacific Steam Engine 2-10-2 982 is traveling to a new home downtown.

The new BNSF locomotive paint scheme is becoming a more common sight across the BNSF rail system.

Four crew persons died when two CN Rail freight trains collided and partially derailed early Sunday in Mississippi, and residents of nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, authorities said.

An attorney representing Minot, North Dakota, residents who are suing Canadian Pacific Railway hopes every household in Ward County will soon be notified that it might have a claim stemming from a derailment and chemical spill three years ago.

The Montana Rail Link crews replacing 6.3 miles of track between Billings and Laurel this week were joined Thursday by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.

Riders on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad are providing significant impact in other important areas of Allegany County business, according to a survey just released by Charles Amos, President of the group.

The state

Norfolk Southern says it's hanging on to 21 miles of abandoned rail corridor between downtown Durham and Person County, North Carolina, because it believes there's a chance trains once again could rumble through the area.

Police are trying to determine why a freight train was abandoned on the tracks Thursday night with its engine still running.