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Appalachian & Ohio Railroad, Inc. (AO), has filed a notice with the Surface Transportation Board to lease, from CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), and operate approximately 158.22 miles of rail line in West Virginia.

Following Canadian Airline Jetsgo's decision to cease all operations immediately, VIA Rail Canada would like to ensure all travelers that it is ready to assist in with passengers' travel needs.

Canada's federal government is moving to transfer its entire railway grain hopper fleet to a private farm group.

NJ Transit's rail, light rail and bus systems posted record ridership last year, reaching more than 225 million trips.

Only a few days after an agreement was reached between New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and CSX Transportation, one sheriff's office has some concerns.

The second bargaining session over changes in wages and work rules of the national rail carriers concluded prematurely Wednesday when the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC), representing the Class One carriers, refused to entertain or even discuss ground rules for negotiations proposed by the Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition (RLBC), representing seven rail unions comprised of 85,000 rail workers.

A Union Pacific rail grinder machine collided with a BNSF Railway train shortly after 20:00 CST Friday night in Rochelle, Illinois.

A train derailment in Newark, California that caused problems for the Friday morning commute did not affect the evening commute, according to the Altamont Commuter Express (ACE).

Canadian National Railway's winter plague of derailments are again hampering freight and VIA Rail operations on the Transcontinental route through Ontario.

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

Police on Thursday arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of intentionally pulling an unlocked railroad switch lever and causing a train carrying chemicals to derail in Santa Fe Springs, California.

This week's Union Pacific Railroad derailment of 21 freight cars in the City of Industry, California, was caused by a broken rail, according to Union Pacific.

Traces of petroleum have been found in the aquifer below a leaky train refueling depot in north Idaho.

BNSF Railway is working with the state of South Dakota to buy most of the state rail system that it's been leasing since South Dakota took over the track 20 years ago.

Pennsylvania State Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler has announced the award of more than $860,000 for projects that will help preserve rail freight service and stimulate economic development across Pennsylvania.

The IC&E Railroad is considering an investment at Savanna, Illinois, but it is too early to confirm how large an influx of funds it involves.

CN announced the promotion of Ed Harris to the position of executive vice-president, operations, effective March 8, 2005.

Crew error was to blame for the collision of two Norfolk Southern trains Dec. 21 off North Carlisle Street in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, according to Rudy Husband, Norfolk Southern's director of public relations.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum trains will begin running again for the season on Saturday, March 12.

A grand scheme for an $800 million "Crossroads of America" intermodal rail facility in Indiana appears to be on the back burner as state economic development officials shift focus under Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Technology designed to prevent train collisions should move into wider use more quickly under standards announced Tuesday, the Federal Railroad Administration said.

Metrolink train service between Riverside and Los Angeles is canceled this morning so workers can repair tracks damaged in a freight-train derailment Tuesday morning.

Central New York Railroad Corporation, which intends to increase freight rail traffic through the Upper Delaware region of New York, has achieved their desired tax abatement from New York counties of Broome, Delaware and Sullivan where the most of the Southern Tier route is found.

A railroad tank car in a Union Pacific Railroad yar that leaked hazardous chemicals, forcing thousands of people from their homes, had been loaded with a dangerous cocktail of corrosive acids that it was not designed to resist, authorities said Monday.

Anyone who spends time in the vicinity of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) railroad tracks in southern Redwood County, Minnesota, has probably noticed some increased activity.

A Benton County, Arkansas, judge recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by J.B. Hunt Transport Services of Lowell to clarify an intermodal transport partnership with BNSF Railway Company.

After releasing its final report into the May 14, 2003 derailment of a CN freight train, near McBride, BC (See IT050303-1), Transportation Safety Board officials held a news conference in Prince George, to further expand on the report's findings.

Consultant Frank Pullia has completed a tourism train study and the findings will be released soon, Thunder Bay, Ontario officials say.

Officials in Allegany County, Maryland, said yesterday they will decide by early June whether this will be the last year for the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.

Illinois grain is increasingly moving via rail terminal loaders, which is causing changes in the state