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Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is getting a trackage facelift for portions of its operation.

Both houses of the Alaska Legislature have passed bills that could clear the way for an extension of the Alaska Railroad to Fort Greely and beyond.

RailAmerica has reported consolidated carloads up 13 percent for April, while same-railroad carloads - those not including purchases or sales - increased 8 percent.

Nobody noticed when 17 railcars rolled out of a switching yard in southeast Portland and rumbled along two miles of track before coming to a rest on lines sometimes traveled by Amtrak passenger trains.

Authorities say a tornado is blamed for a freight train derailment late today in the Texas Panhandle, near Hartley.

Plans for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum are chugging along.

Northeast business groups are getting behind Amtrak.

Meridian Southern Railway LLC will spend $250,000 to refurbish a 55-mile stretch of railroad it owns in Clarke and Wayne counties.

Memphis-based Cornerstone Systems is expanding its trucking distribution and logistics business to include railroad transportation services. In a release, Cornerstone CEO Rick Rodell says industries that have not used rail for shipping in 15-20 years have begun adding rail to their distribution strategy, opening up the opportunity for his company.

The BC government is giving CN a multi-million-dollar tax break as part of its controversial purchase of BC Rail's freight operations.

Union Pacific Corp.'s largest union sued the biggest U.S. railroad to block the company from responding to a crew shortage by using managers to run trains.

CSX Transportation has announced that it will lease 200 miles of its unprofitable Mountain Subdivision trackage, that starts in Richmond and follows an arc across Virginia to a private company.

CN today completed its acquisition of the rail and marine holdings of Great Lakes Transportation LLC (GLT).

Union Pacific Railroad has canceled three express train contracts with United Parcel Service and is increasing some shipping prices to handle growing demand in the midst of a train crew shortage. A contract for trains that ran once a week each way from Los Angeles to New York has been canceled because it took up resources needed in other areas of the railroad, Union Pacific spokeswoman Kathryn Blackwell says.

After battling a tunnel fire that began Nov. 17, then removing huge timbers and tons of rock and dirt from the collapsed sections, construction crews expect to reopen Central Oregon & Pacific's Ashland tunnel early next month.

Norfolk Southern Railroad officials tried to convince more than 70 residents Thursday that an intermodel facility wouldn't seriously impact their way of life along Lamore Drive in Prince George, Virginia. Some residents told the railroad men to "Go home. We don't want you here." But many others pleaded with the officials to build a bridge over the railroad track to make the project easier on residents. There was no sign that the railroad men wanted to alter their plan.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway executives are promising better service to North Dakota grain elevators.

On Friday, KCS' Southern Belle business train joined in the celebration of the dedication ceremony for the restored KCS Depot in Stilwell, Oklahoma.

Canadian National Railway plans to scale back its operations in Battle Creek, Michigan, however it was unclear how many layoffs will occur among the company's 500 employees there.

A $1 billion cash injection for GO Transit aimed at speeding up and smoothing out the ride for 60,000 daily commuters will roll out today.

Three Amtrak trains and a VRE train were reported stranded on the rails last night due to trees down between the Chatham area of Stafford County and Fredericksburg, Virginia.

A study outlining the preliminary design and anticipated environmental effects of a project to extend the GO Transit train to Barrie, ON will be presented during a public meeting May 12 from 4 to 8pm at the Southshore Community Center.

Should the Alaska Railroad be exempt from local planning and zoning laws? It thinks so.

CSX Corporation shareholders approved two non-binding proposals -- one regarding the adoption of so-called poison pill provisions and one regarding severance packages for top management -- during Wednesday's annual meeting at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts. Voters viewed favorably a proposal to require the company's directors to submit to a shareholder vote action regarding poison pills. The term describes provisions that give shareholders a chance to buy additional shares at a reduced price in the event that someone acquires more than a certain percentage of the company's shares without board approval. CSX had a poison pill provision but did away with it.

BNSF Logistics, LLC, has acquired Rite Choice Transport, a Roland, Oklahoma third-party logistics (3PL) company that specializes in serving the perishables and refrigerated market. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The nation's largest truckload carrier will start charging its customers more if Union Pacific Railroad doesn't recover from its service problems soon.

The Surface Transportation Board is denying the application of the trustee of the bankruptcy estate of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company (BAR), who had sought a Board finding that the public convenience and necessity (PC&N) require or permit the termination of the rights of the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and its subsidiary Waterloo Railway Company (Waterloo) to operate over a segment of track currently owned by the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd. (MMA), BAR's successor.

The former LTV Steel GP38-3s have apparently been accepted by the management of the Maryland Midland and will be heading for new duties in Maryland.

This summer, parents from coast to coast will be bombarded with pleading cries from their children "but, I just gotta see it!" and they won't just be referring to the highly-anticipated release of Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios' action adventure Spider-Man(R) 2.

The Department of Defense might consider financing an extension of the Alaska Railroad to Fort Greely, an Alaska Railroad Corp. executive said this week.