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The pump price surge has accentuated a longer trend toward the use of rail instead of trucks for long-distance shipment of products, according to Gary Sease, spokesman for the CSX Corp. Increasing freight-traffic backups at CSX's Selkirk, New York, railyard, among other busy facilities, prompted the company to develop a "One Plan" to thin out congestion at choke points. Selkirk is CSX's Northeast Region headquarters and the crossroads for freight traffic hauled by the company on the Boston-Cleveland and Montreal-Richmond, Va., routes.

A CN Rail Ontario derailment on Sunday afternoon temporarily disrupted VIA Rail passengers and other CN freight traffic on the railroad's Kingston Subdivision.

Nearly three years and nine months after Amtrak's Downeaster began shuttling people between Maine and Boston, the train service made a big mile stone: transporting 1 million passengers.

An eastbound Union Pacific Railroad train loaded with coal derailed early Saturday morning near downtown Grand Island, Nebraska.

CSX Corp., the third-biggest U.S. railroad, has resumed "limited service" on about one-third of a 148-mile line east of New Orleans that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The federal government sued Union Pacific Railroad on Wednesday, claiming the continent's largest rail carrier illegally retaliated against an Oakland, California, worker who'd filed discrimination charges.

Two railroad cars loaded with 200,000 pounds of food, water and supplies will pull out from a warehouse Monday, destined for the Gulf Coast to help hurricane victims.

Amtrak announced Thursday it is adding more Acela Express round trips serving Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C., next week. The move adds only one train to Boston's schedule. It will be a southbound train departing Boston on a Saturday morning. Currently, the Acela Express weekday round trips run three times daily to and from Boston.

A $1.3 million, 9,900-foot extension of the Rochelle Railroad was officially opened Friday in Rochelle, Illinois.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced continued progress in rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast

RailAmerica, Inc. announced Friday that it has been notified by Alcoa Inc. that RailAmerica has been selected to acquire four short line railroads serving Alcoa aluminum manufacturing operations in Texas and New York and a former specialty chemicals facility in Arkansas.

Amtrak's Downeaster is expecting to hit a milestone this month when it carries its one-millionth passenger.

A dispute between Oklahoma City and Union Pacific Railroad could delay completion of a bridge near Bricktown.

A special train operated by Norfolk Southern Railway Company will visit five Northeastern cities September 12-16 to promote Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response (TRANSCAER

The Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia will offer scenic tours every Sunday in October.

A subsidiary of Wabtec Corp. has won an $8 million contract to overhaul seven locomotives for the New York's Metro-North commuter railroad.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Wednesday released its final report (R04W0148) into the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) derailment of August 8, 2004 in Estevan, Saskatchewan.

Direct passenger rail service to and from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans cannot be fully restored at this time due to severe infrastructure damage from Hurricane Katrina, but Amtrak does plan to extend two services that had been previously truncated.

All trains on the Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange County and 91 lines through Fullerton, California, were scheduled to resume service Tuesday afternoon.

As it approaches its 10th anniversary, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner is posting double-digit increases in ridership over last year and is becoming a success, according to a report from the agency that coordinates transportation in the county.

Chicago South Bend and South Shore Railroad officials hope to speed up travel times on the northwest Indiana commuter rail line by cutting the time it takes for passengers to get onto the cars.

The Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad will open bids later this week on rebuilding 187 miles of track from Meadville, Pennsylvania to Hornell, New York.

Just days after Hurricane Katrina slammed the gulf coast, RV manufacturers in Elkhart County, Indiana, started making trailers for temporary housing.

Detroit-based unionized mechanics striking Northwest Airlines Corp. on Tuesday said they would extend the picket line to the Stanley rail yard in Toledo.

One union official says trains could be backed up from St. Louis to New York City, all because of some striking Northwest Airline Mechanics in Northwest Ohio.

BNSF Railway announced that it had reached agreement to convey to container lessor Swift Intermodal approximately 3,800 53-foot containers currently leased by BNSF.

Norfolk Southern Corporation is providing $1 million for community recovery efforts, while enhancing its other relief-related programs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Kristina has sidetracked two South Florida Regional Transportation Authority development approvals for at least a month.

On the 10th floor of CSX Corporations's downtown Jacksonville, Florida, tower, more than a dozen people are spending their days huddled over computers and talking on the phone, trying to make sure that the company's 300 workers and 30 hazardous material cars stranded in and around New Orleans are safe. At the same time, the group in the conference-turned-situation room, as well as others, are poring over aerial shots of the 100-plus miles of railroad track battered by Hurricane Katrina, trying to figure out how bad, and how widespread, the damage might be.

Eighty years ago, the Clinton County borough of Renovo was a Pennsylvania Railroad town with 2,500 people working in the car shops.