Railroad News

Here is a prime candidate for immediate cloning: John Clifford, a 6'4, quick-tempered former police officer and a lawyer whose greatest pleasure in life seems to be riding the Long Island Rail Road and ...

Wall Street reacted favorably Monday to Greenbrier Cos. ' announcement that it acquired nearly all the assets of Roller Bearing Industries Inc., from SKF USA Inc. via The Business Journal of Portland

“We are in the preliminary stages.”

An evacuation order was lifted and Highway 39 was reopened on Tuesday at the site of a fiery derailment involving three Canadian Pacific Railway trains in southeastern Saskatchewan. via CFRB

“No one had ever seen a chlorine spill like that. No one knew what to do.”

Norfolk Southern Railways and Avondale Mills have settled a civil lawsuit that arose in the wake of the Graniteville disaster, according to sources familiar with the case as reported in the Aiken, S.C., ... via UTU News

The Contra Costa County coroner's office has identified 60-year-old Leon Greer Jr.

People in a rural area of southeast Saskatchewan were told to evacuate Monday when rail cars caught fire following a crash involving three Canadian Pacific Railway trains, some carrying dangerous goods.

Checks due to arrive in the hands of people included in a class action lawsuit against Canadian Pacific Railway stemming from the 2002 derailment and chemical spill will have to wait a few more weeks before ...

EASTBOUND?: MTA light-rail construction continues on Third Street in East Los Angeles on Friday.

Federal investigators say they know what caused a runaway freight train in Yakima last year that derailed four tank cars containing thousands of gallons of liquefied propane: Nobody set the brakes.

An MTA printing facility beneath Long Island Rail Road tracks in Queens will soon be transformed into a brand-new shopping area.

A judge has refused to dismiss murder charges against a man accused of causing a 2005 Los Angeles train crash that killed 11 people.

Twenty years after a train derailment in Columbus County officials are finally looking into ways to clean up the mess left behind.

Trains rumble through Lorain County and Cleveland's western suburbs more than 50 times a day, and their horns wake residents and stop business in downtowns across the region.

Utah's coal industry has not been able to capitalize much on the surging global demand for its product because no western U.S. ports are shipping coal to Asia.

A train struck and killed a man Tuesday afternoon in the Denton County town of Krum, authorities said. via Dallas Morning News

Highway 28 east of Wenatchee is closed until Wednesday while workers hired by the Transportation Department remove rocks overhanging the roadway. via The Columbian

The Manhattan span of the Triborough Bridge will be closed intermittently between midnight Thursday and 5 AM on Friday for maintenance work. via Pennlive.com

New Jersey Transit trains on the Pascack line are running on schedule again after a train that originated in the village this morning struck and killed a person walking along the tracks in River Edge, N.J. A ...

Arrest warrants have been issued for two individuals who left the scene of an accident while a victim lay unconscious in the path of an oncoming train in the early morning hours of March 15.

Perhaps it's high fuel prices or better connection times; or maybe it's because it's harder to scam the system, but for some reason paid ridership has jumped on two commuter train lines that serve South Jersey.