Railroad News

About 400 students and 50 homes were evacuated for about five hours Friday morning in Jefferson after four train cars derailed in the city.

The train tracks are clear through Redmond after a tank car carrying some 28,000 gallons of liquefied petroleum gas derails early this morning at Antler and Canal.

“It's about time. We pushed them hard but we've gotten the results we wanted”

CSX WILL spend $48.5 million to improve its rail system in New York state, including tracks in the Hudson Valley, U.S. Sen. via Daily Freeman

“Their concern was not to stop the railroad. Their concern was to get a decent price for what the railroad was taking”

The South Dakota Senate has approved a measure intended to speed up state hearings on the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's application to acquire land by condemnation for its $6 billion expansion project. via Rapid City Journal

“RailAmerica, the CORP folks, have shown no good faith in any of their dealings so far”

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has turned down a railroad company's request for state aid to repair tunnels along a 120-mile stretch of Coast Range track it has closed. via KGW-TV Portland

“Rail is the most environmentally-friendly and energy efficient land transportation option”

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - CSX Transportation today launched an online Carbon Calculator, giving shippers and others the ability to make the best environmental choice of transportation options. via Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

A longtime New Jersey Transit track welder was killed when he was hit by a train on Sunday morning near the Ridgewood station, a spokesman for the railroad said.

Hillsborough and Montgomery officals want federal and state leaders to find ways to fund NJ Transit's plan to reactivate the 27-mile West Trenton rail line.

Is a "smart card" clever enough to recognize SEPTA and PATCO and NJ Transit? And are transit agencies smart enough to create automated fare systems that work together? As public transit authorities move from ...

Citing his belief that a recent Illinois top court decision which says that communities do not have the right to ticket trains that are blocking traffic for long periods of time, Des Plaines Mayor Tony Arredia ...

There is a train derailment accident somewhere in the U.S. every five hours, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.

The trucks that rolled into Staten Island left more than dirt at the site of a new NASCAR racetrack.

Two men were injured Saturday afternoon, after missing their train stop and jumping from a moving Metra train in west suburban Clarendon Hills.

Train cars carrying chemicals and propane gas derailed early Tuesday, forcing authorities to close a highway and to urge all residents to evacuate their small West Virginia town as a precaution.

It looks like the MTA will be able to afford a $46 million program to upgrade subway and bus service across the city, including more frequent trains on some lines and new bus routes for growing neighborhoods.

Des Plaines police responded to several instances of malfunctioning railroad gates last week.

Photographer's locomotive passion brings history to life by ROBERT WHALE Jim Fredrickson had to climb a pole to snap the photo of President Harry Truman's Whistlestop Campaign Special departing Auburn near the ...

“They're changing the rules in the middle of the game. That's wrong. They're rigging it”

A state Senate committee has approved a bill aimed at speeding up state hearings on the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's application to acquire land by condemnation for its planned $6 billion expansion ... via Casper Star Tribune

A 28-year-old Norfolk Southern railroad conductor from Indiana died Tuesday after being struck by a train on the South Side Sunday night, television station CBS2 reported.