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Despite the last ditch efforts of at least one man with a dream for the future of the B&ML, it doesn't look like there will be any last-minute turn-around for the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad in Maine.

SEPTA regional rail Route R8 Fox Chase will operate with new schedules beginning Monday, June 20 to accommodate a new 3.5 mile single-track operation between Wayne Junction and Cheltenham Stations in Pennsylvania, due to increased freight train traffic through the area.

Just as it appeared the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad would disappear from the city's waterfront, a Richmond businessman is racing to the rescue.

Federal regulators have imposed speed limits requiring a Stockton-to-San Jose, California, commuter train to travel at just 10 mph through a stretch of the Altamont Pass.

In a letter sent Tuesday, June 14, 2005, VIA Rail Canada informed Cornwall, Ontario, Mayor Phil Poirier of the cancellation of the Montreal to Toronto overnight service as of September 15th, 2005.

RailPower Technologies Corp. announced that a five-year lease contract has been signed with BNSF Railway Company for five Green Goat

Union Pacific Corp. and BNSF Railway, the two biggest U.S. railroads, said they will ship less coal than usual out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the nation's busiest shipping route for the fuel.

A federal judge in Roanoke granted Norfolk Southern Railway a temporary restraining order Thursday morning, forcing union workers back to work.

At about 06:45 CDT, four cars of a Union Pacific train derailed near the intersection of 2nd and Garriott Street in Enid, Oklahoma, blocking Garriott for nearly nine hours.

A power outage during Thursday's evening rush hour stopped all of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's commuter rail service for more than an hour.

VIA Rail said Tuesday that it will close its Toronto, Ontario call center in September, eliminating 39 local jobs.

Amtrak would have to end all of its cross-country routes, service between Chicago and New Orleans, and the Auto Train to Florida under big cuts in taxpayer subsidies approved yesterday by a House subcommittee.

Union Pacific Railroad police have arrested two men suspected of attempting to break into a rail car carrying a motor for Railroad officials did not release their names.

Effective June 27, 2005, VIA Rail Canada will increase its service to Niagara Falls region with a new morning train to / from Toronto.

The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) initiated strike action June 16, 2005, against Norfolk Southern Railroad Corporation (NSR) at 05:45 EDT.

After more than two decades of discussion, commuter rail in Central Florida finally may be heading down the right track. And it may happen by 2009.

A group of major Canadian retailers will use the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to route growing volumes of import products from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently ordered the Union Pacific Railroad Company to prevent any oil discharges and improve its measures to prevent oil spills at its Ozol Service Track Area in Martinez, Calif.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's plan to bring commuter train service to the Albuquerque metro area by the end of the year is chugging along.

A train car left by itself on a RailAmerica - Indiana & Ohio Railroad line began moving on its own and crashed into a couple of cars before derailing outside Lebanon, Ohio, on Tuesday.

VIA Rail is on board as the exclusive sponsor of CTV Travel channel's weeklong programming event, Canada's Greatest Ride, premiering Sun., June 26 at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT and airing 24-hours per day through to Canada Day, Fri., July 1 at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.

Steamtown National Historic Site will bring several special trains to Scranton, Pennsylvania, offer a range of demonstrations and host several dignitaries as part of its 10th anniversary celebration next month.

Last month's freight carloads were up 10.3 percent, year-over-year, at RailAmerica. Without acquisitions and sales, though, the short line and regional railroad operator put the increase at 5.5 percent.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported May 2005 traffic volumes for its North American and 50%-owned Australian operations.

An agreement between Norfolk Southern Railroad and the SEDA-Council of Governments

An Amtrak train is rolling again after a crash with a railroad maintenance truck in southwestern Washington.

Metrolink's leaders demanded Friday that Union Pacific stop causing delays on the commuter-train service's Riverside Line.

David R. Goode, Norfolk Southern Corporation chairman and CEO, today joined John E. Carroll, Jr., president and CEO of FreightCar America, Inc., in celebrating the grand opening of FreightCar America's new railcar manufacturing facility in Roanoke, Virginia.

Amtrak said it should be able to restart limited service of its Acela Express high-speed train between Boston and Washington in July but won't return to a full schedule until the fall.

The crew of a Union Pacific freight train likely was asleep when its engine slammed into a Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive south of Kelso nearly two years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.