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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the former Milwaukee Road roundhouse in Janesville and the 25th anniversary of the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co.

VIA Rail said an investigation is underway after a CBC Radio reporter managed to board a passenger train Friday and enter its baggage area without once being checked for a ticket.

The day-after scene of a Union Pacific derailment in southwest Orem, Utah, still seemed chaotic, but this time it was more of a controlled frenzy as crews worked around piles of damaged sheetrock and two upended rail cars to quickly repair the railroad tracks.

Three men have been taken to hospital after a derailment caused by a cattle truck and CN Rail train colliding in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.

Railroad tracks near Benedict, North Dakota, that was damaged in a barley train derailment has reopened.

As CN Rail prepared to resume near-normal service on its main Toronto-Montreal corridor, the company revealed a buckled rail or 'heat kink' due to excessive ambient temperatures caused Monday's derailment here.

Amtrak says security is a little tighter on the nation's passenger rail trains.

Authorities are concerned about the disappearance of a CSX maintenance truck Monday from a CSX work area in Millville, W.Va., in light of Thursday's terrorist attacks in London, Jefferson County Sheriff Everett "Ed" Boober said.

A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Waldwick, New Jersey, on Wednesday evening, snarling the ride home for thousands of NJ Transit commuters on the Main and Bergen County lines and shutting down Hoboken-bound service.

No wonder the City of Belfast, Maine, is having second and third thoughts about what to do with the Belfast & Moosehead Lake property on the waterfront.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) announced an historic agreement that will bring nearly 46,000 members of the Maryland-based Transportation Communications International Union (TCU) into the Machinists Union.

A railroad worker dies after becoming pinned between two rail cars in Emporia, Kansas, last night.

VIA Rail service between Toronto and Montreal is now operating normally, the company said Wednesday afternoon, after a freight train derailment two days earlier.

A Norfolk Southern freight train running on tracks shared with New Jersey Transit's commuter service derailed on Wednesday afternoon, shutting down commuter service.

It could become the battle over the battlefield. Monmouth County and U.S. National Park Service (USNPS) officials have begun discussions on the preservation of history in the face of proposed passenger rail service through an historic battlefield in New Jersey.

Developer Bruce Ratner is expected to formally make his bid to develop rail yards owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Downtown Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.

A Union Pacific Railroad train derailed in Orem near Geneva Steel this afternoon.

A 52-car CN Rail derailment in Prescott, Ontario, brought passenger and freight traffic to a halt Monday between Toronto and Montreal, one of Canada's busiest rail corridors.

Visitors taking the Alaska Railroad to Denali National Park and Preserve will now have the option of traveling in style.

Kansas City Southern said Tuesday that the board of its Mexican railroad, TFM, has appointed a new CEO.

Virginia Railway Express has a couple of schedule changes beginning today, and they mean some riders will have to be at the station earlier.

VIA Rail's high-speed passenger service between Montreal and Toronto was slowed considerably Tuesday because of a freight train derailment.

CN Rail is in talks with Kansas-based Watco to possibly operate a rail between Natchez and Brookhaven, Mississippi.

A BNSF Railway train carrying military vehicles was halted on the tracks through Longmont, Colorado, for nearly an hour after the wind knocked down a tree that hit the train, said Longmont Police Sgt. Scott Campbell.

The union for 1,600 locomotive engineers at Canadian National Railway Co. have ratified two labor pacts, the company said on Monday.

Canadian Pacific Railway is installing more than 530,000 feet of heavy premium rail, 137,000 crossties, and 300,000 tons of rock ballast as it carries out a $160-million program to expand freight capacity this year between the Canadian Prairies and the Vancouver Gateway.

A BNSF Railway freight train traveling through Verona, Missouri, derailed twenty-four cars Saturday night, several cars reportedly turned over.

Congress appears willing to keep Amtrak alive, bucking the Bush administration and its allies on the issue, including U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Michigan.

A coal train from the Powder River Basin of southeastern Montana derailed in Miles City, Montana, Friday afternoon, spilling coal, closing major intersections and disrupting both train and vehicle traffic, BNSF Railway Co. and city officials said.

Since 1905, trains have gone through the Scholle area along New Mexico's Abo Canyon in the Manzanos on a single track.