New Jersey Transit plans to begin running a new passenger rail service Feb. 6 from New York City to Atlantic City, primarily for casino customers.
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Kansas City Southern plans to offer investors $175 million in senior notes due in 2013. The railway would then use the income to ...read more.

Federal transportation officials are requesting proposals from contractors to build a new $30 to $40 billion passenger-only rail line between New ...read more.

Freight railroads face fines and potential conflicts with Amtrak over a new law intended to improve on-time performance for passenger trains. ...read more.

Railroads carried 15 percent of the freight carried in the United States during 2007, second only to the trucking industry, according to preliminary ...read more.

Recent Metrolink collisions are creating the political will for the commuter rail agency to get quick government approval to install automatic train ...read more.

Financial industry analysts predict a slowdown in freight rail traffic will last well into 2009, but some areas of the country are being spared. ...read more.

Canadian National Railway just gained a strong bargaining chip in its effort to acquire Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad with the release of a new ...read more.

Canadian National Railway could be compelled to pay much more of the environmental mitigation cost as a condition of its proposed $300 million ...read more.

A Union Pacific Railroad signalman has won what his lawyers say is the largest Federal Employers' Liability Act award in history. ...read more.