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RailPower Technologies Corp. announced that Norfolk Southern will commence a 30-day trial with a Green Goat Series hybrid locomotive at the beginning of August.

CN Rail has filed notice it plans to abandon and discontinue service on the former Canada Southern rail line it operates in partnership with the Canadian Pacific Railway from St. Thomas to Fargo, Ontario.

A preliminary settlement has been reached that would reimburse residents and businesses affected by the deadliest train wreck involving hazardous material in nearly three decades.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania city officials plan to buy an old train terminal for $5,000 and turn it into green space.

A gas leak shut down Amtrak's Auto Train station near Lorton, Virginia on Monday morning.

Duluth becomes the second Minnesota city with a commuter rail line on Monday, if only for a week.

RailAmerica officials are trying to figure out why a train derailed in Marshall County, Indiana, early Sunday morning.

BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and RailPower Technologies Corp. have announced that BNSF will keep its "Green Goat(R)," an environmentally friendly hybrid switch engine, in service for five years in the Los Angeles area and that it is acquiring four cabless Green Goat(R) units for use in Texas.

Two employees have earned Norfolk Southern's highest honor, the Thoroughbred Award, for their contributions to the company's long-term success.

The manager of the Michigan State Fair and Ferndale city officials oppose a proposal to expand the Canadian National rail yard at the fairgrounds in Royal Oak.

Pacific Harbor Line, Inc. (PHL) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have signed a new four-year labor agreement covering PHL's operating and maintenance of way employees.

The Eastern Shore Railroad will get a $100,000 loan for track improvements from Accomack County taxpayers, but the Board of Supervisors still wants detailed financial information from the state's biggest shortline.

Seventeen cars of southbound CSX Transportation train Q687-19 derailed early Friday morning near the community of Sherwood, Tennessee, in southern Franklin County.

Cleanup of a train derailment continued Friday afternoon in Osage County, Kansas.

Train service between Tucson and Nogales, Arizona, over a Union Pacific bridge damaged Thursday night by an arson fire has resumed.

Tom Mulligan, a conductor with Norfolk Southern Railway in Decatur, Ill., was today named winner of the Harold F. Hammond Award for railroad safety for 2004.

Allegheny Valley Railroad plans to reopen nine miles of track this summer that were damaged during the September flooding.

The Norfolk Southern Exhibit Car will tour the company's rail network from New York to Georgia in 2005, making stops in 18 communities where it will be open to the public.

Plans to double the number of commuter rail trains running from Worcester through MetroWest to Boston, Massachusetts, received a boost yesterday when a key member of Gov. Mitt Romney's administration said funding has been secured for the project.

A tractor-trailer crossed into the path of an Amtrak train just starting its daily St. Louis-to-Kansas City run Wednesday, the collision critically injuring the truck's driver but sparing the handful of people aboard the passenger train.

Employees at the nation's railroads reported their lowest employee casualty rate in history during 2004, Edward R. Hamberger, president and CEO of the Association of American Railroads, said at a luncheon ceremony honoring railroads with the best employee safety records last year.

CN and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) today reached an agreement in principle on a new labour contract for the companies locomotive engineers in Canada. As a result of the agreement the TCRC has cancelled its plan to strike CN at midnight tonight, and it will be busness as usual tomorrow for CN's freight operations and for commuter agencies in Toronto and Montreal that use CN locomotive engineers to operate their trains. The wording of the proposed five-year agreement, retorative to Jan. 01,2005, is being worked out. Details of the contract are being withheld pending ratification by the TCRC's membership. The TCRC has roughly 1,600 active employees at CN with 1,490 in freight service. E. Hunter Harrison, President and executive officer of CN said " I am pleased that CN and the TCRC were able to resolve outstanding issues and reach a new collective agreement without labour disruption. This allows all of us at CN to remain focused on our customers and their transportation needs." Negotiation of the new agreement in principle was assisted by the involvement of two mediators appointed by Federal Minister of Labour and Housing Joe Fontana.

BNSF has begun taking delivery of production locomotives equipped with forward-facing video cameras from GE Transportation Rail.

The Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) announced that they have reached a labor agreement with the United Steelworkers of America Union Local 1976 (Steelworkers Local 1976).

The Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Grant Bailey as its new Vice President Rail, effective May 16, 2005.

More federal oversight and regulation are needed to prevent railroad accidents like the one that caused a deadly spill in Graniteville more than four months ago, a federal official said Monday.

Conflicts between freight and passenger cars on a rail line connecting Riverside to downtown Los Angeles have commuters furious.

With success built on safety, service and "the finest, most talented team in the business," Norfolk Southern "has showed its ability to move the freight profitably for our investors and efficiently for our shippers," David R. Goode, chairman and chief executive officer, told the company's shareholders at their 23rd annual meeting, in Norfolk.

NJ Transit and Amtrak rail service is expected to run on normal schedules Monday morning after a vital train bridge in Kearny, New Jersey, damaged by fire on Thursday was deemed safe for the heavy traffic during peak commuting times, Amtrak officials said.

A train derailed Saturday afternoon on Texas Highway 155 near Pritchett, the same location as a derailment last Wednesday.