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Ferndale residents and officials say the Michigan State Fairgrounds are not the place for a proposed rail yard expansion.

A railroad car carrying a motor for a Trident D5 missile was tampered with at a rail yard in San Bernadino, California on Friday, prompting a voluntary evacuation by about 100 people and an investigation involving the Defense Department, the Navy and the FBI.

The CN Safe Community Fund has awarded the Kamloops Injury Prevention Network in British Columbia, a $3,400 grant to support three rail safety initiatives the Committee is undertaking this year.

NJ Transit is planning passenger rail service along a freight line in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Canadian National Railway is making some changes to the downtown train tracks after a derailment shut down most of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for several hours on Memorial Day.

Record numbers of passengers are riding Amtrak's Capitol Corridor trains between Auburn and San Jose, California, despite service kinks ranging from late trains to a bomb scare that stranded hundreds of commuters Wednesday.

The historic Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad took it's final trip on Thursday after operating since 1867.

The State of Maryland might continue subsidizing the embattled Western Maryland Scenic Railroad if its operators stop fighting construction of an adjacent hiking and biking trail, the state's tourism director said Thursday.

The last steam engine ordered by the Union Pacific Railroad is chugging again after a six-year restoration.

The battle between BNSF Railway and the city of Burlington, Iowa, continues to heat up, as the railroad's most recent court filing alludes to the possibility of filing a motion for sanctions against the city in the future.

Iain Angus has been hired by the Municipality of Greenstone, Ontario, to determine if Canadian National Railway

The Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad, accustomed to hauling thousands of tons of quarried rocks out of Centre County, Pennsylvania, to build roads, will haul thousands of tons of a chemical product into the county to clean one up.

For the fourth year in a row, a GO Transit employee has won an important transportation award.

A Dawson, Georgia-based shortline railroad company has purchased forty-three miles of railroad between Florida Rock Industries in north Columbus through Harris County and ending about three miles north of Greenville in Meriwether County.

A change in Florida's Tri-Rail commuter rail schedules may affect hundreds of students using trains to commute to the South Florida Education Center, an umbrella of colleges and a technical school.

Just as construction ramps up on the highways during the summer, the Kansas City Southern crews will take advantage of the warm months to further a host of capital improvement projects to add capacity, efficiency and better serve customers.

FBI agents and police evacuated an Amtrak train in California, seized a passenger and X-rayed his packages Wednesday after he angrily warned the train was going to "fall into the sea," authorities said.

Despite repeated inspections, no one spotted rail joint cracks that derailed three Union Pacific locomotives and 11 freight cars near Whittier, California, last fall, damaging at least four homes and forcing the evacuation of 100 residents, federal safety officials said Wednesday.

After years of struggling to maintain rail service over rough mountainous territory in Northern California's Shasta and Siskiyou counties, McCloud Railway has initiated abandonment proceedings to discharge the "common carrier obligation" that exists on its 100 mile mile track network.

Wabtec Corporation announced that its MotivePower subsidiary has signed a $12 million contract to overhaul 70 locomotives for Helm Financial Corporation, a lessor of freight cars and locomotives.

Above the din of earth-moving equipment, Pennsylvania state Sen. Don White proclaimed Monday that a railway being built will be a huge economic boon to his district.

CSX Transportation must wait two more weeks to get permission to encroach on three Princeton, Indiana, utility easements during the railroad company's rail line extension project.

The Richmond, California, Amtrak and BART stations were shut down Wednesday morning while investigators examine a set of packages left on board a Capital Corridor train.

As the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway prepared to pull out of the old Central Railroad of New Jersey station, the voice over the loudspeaker announced that the train would travel through "some of the most beautiful scenery in the eastern United States."

A fire at Colorado's Valmont Display Site of the Boulder County Railway Historical Society (BCRHS) damaged two railroad cars and destroyed a lot of hard work early Monday morning.

Soaring prices and a predicted worldwide coal shortage are prompting Fording Canadian Coal Trust to consider reopening the massive Quintette mine in northeast British Columbia.

Norfolk Southern Corporation has recognized 36 customers for safe handling of hazardous chemicals.

Sound Transit's leaders may feel a glow of accomplishment when a second round-trip Sounder commuter train debuts today between Everett and Seattle.

Canadian Pacific Railway has completed the first of 25 projects under a $160-million program to increase train capacity on the railway's network between the Prairies and the Port of Vancouver.

CSX Transportation teamed up with Sheriff John Rutherford and members of the northeast Florida community to raise $150,000 for area charities. Hosted by CSX, the Giving Train departed from the Osborn Center for an excursion reminiscent of the days when trains departed there on a regular basis.