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Rockingham County, Harrisonburg, Virginia and James Madison University now have a completed study suggesting the best way to reroute train tracks that run through the city and campus.

Union Switch & Signal Chief Executive Officer Ken Burk is making a big bet that the Pittsburgh railroad products company can boost the average speed of the nation's largest freight railroad by 2 to 4 mph. If that doesn't sound so fast, consider that a 1 mph increase in average train speed can save large railroads such as Union Pacific Corp. an estimated $200 million a year. By moving product just a little quicker over long distances with the same number of trains and crews, the effective number of workers and locomotives per mile falls, generating huge efficiencies.

Two Union Pacific trains collided and derailed in Shepherd, Texas, early Thursday morning, killing one employee, a company spokesman said.

In the not so distant past Washington's Tacoma Rail communicated with its customers not by e-mail, but by fax

Hundreds and possibly thousands of railcars in the area hit by Hurricane Katrina could be an environmental hazard. The problem for state Department of Environmental Quality staff is in not knowing what or where that hazard might be.

In the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast, Union Pacific is transporting goods and supplies in support of recovery efforts, assisting more than 250 Union Pacific employees who lived in the devastated area and matching employee cash donations toward the relief effort.

South Dakota lawmakers said Monday they are frustrated that they cannot get some details about the sale of the state-owned railroad line to the BNSF Railway.

North American Technologies Group, Inc. announced that its subsidiary TieTek LLC recently secured an order for 60,000 composite crossties from BNSF Railway.

Regional rail service provider RailAmerica Inc. said Tuesday that August freight carloads grew 2.5 percent to 109,287 from 106,631 last year, due to the acquisition of the Midland Subdivision.

Kansas City Southern announced that it and its subsidiaries TFM, S.A. de C.V. (TFM) and Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (GTFM), along with the Mexican holding company Grupo TMM, S.A. (Grupo TMM), have entered into a settlement agreement with the Mexican government, resolving the controversies and disputes between the companies and the Government concerning the payment of a value added tax (VAT) refund to TFM and the purchase of the remaining shares of TFM owned by the Mexican government.

Today, we are embracing a new generation of environmentally-friendly rail technology," said John Lanigan, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of BNSF Railway.

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced that Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh bulk transfer facility recently received more than a million dollars in upgrades to provide improved handling of various products, including food grade and plastics, as well as the ability to handle new products, such as lumber.

Fourteen boxcars derailed and a truck driver was killed when a freight train and a truck collided near Melbourne, Ontario, Tuesday.

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

More than 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel were dumped on the ground when two locomotives derailed Sunday morning in the Union Pacific Bailey Yard.

A controversial City Council proposal that would prohibit shipping hazardous materials through Baltimore was stripped off the city's calendar days before this week's scheduled hearing, an unusual move that prompted an outcry from supporters. Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr., who introduced the measure in February, blamed the decision to cancel Wednesday's hearing on last-minute lobbying by transportation and chemical companies opposed to regulation. Others faulted a procedural mix-up.

The parent company of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway's plans for a Victorian-style headquarters in Durango will get their first official review Monday at a Design Review Board meeting.

Norfolk Southern Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. railroad , expects to run its first train through New Orleans today since Hurricane Katrina hit two weeks ago, resuming connections with Western railroads.

Hazardous material teams determined that no liquefied petroleum gas leaked when two tankers and a flat rail car jumped the tracks Monday in Reno County, Kansas.

Pawnee, Oklahoma's, railroad crossings and Oklahoma Route 18 were blocked when five cars of a BNSF Railway train derailed early Monday morning, authorities said.

Amtrak's passenger rail service, suspended due to Hurricane Katrina, is being extended in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Canadian National Railway Co. restored its direct line to New Orleans on Tuesday, and does not expect damage from Hurricane Katrina will have "significant financial impact."

Amtrak announced Friday it will raise fares nationally to counter higher energy costs, with Northeast Corridor commuters holding monthly rail passes seeing a fare hike of about 50 percent.

Railroad workers joined the reconstructed Virginia & Truckee Railway tracks to the existing Gold Hill rails Friday morning, which brings the length to about three miles, the longest it's been since the historic railroad was torn out in the 1950s.

Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. lost six London-made locomotives, valued at about $18 million US, in the floodwaters of New Orleans.

King County, Washington, will remain the only entity negotiating with BNSF Railway for the purchase of its 47-mile-long Eastside rail corridor, which extends from Renton to the city of Snohomish.

CSX Corp. announced Thursday it will prepay about $600,000 in property taxes to three Mississippi counties to help them recover from Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans' key shipping and transportation infrastructure is getting back on its feet, easing concerns of drags on the national economy and quickly overtaking the city's own reconstruction.

In separate incidents over the past couple of weeks, NJ Transit evacuated passengers from two Midtown Direct trains after conductors reported suffering electric jolts while they were working.

Canadian National Railway and the United Steelworkers union have agreed to build a better working relationship at the country's biggest railway, the company and union announced Friday.