Dear President Obama:
Federal regulators have conditionally approved the hotly debated sale of a nearly 200-mile railway line that swings around Chicago and through dozens of suburban communities.
Barbara Neuschwander can still recall the stench and taste created by the massive fire that burned for days after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals crashed two years ago near her home south of Louisville, Ky.
North Shore commuters are about to join their Worcester counterparts with free Internet access on Massachusetts trains.
Federal officials have approved a plan to extend the D.C. region's Metrorail system to Dulles International Airport, nearly a year after cost concerns threatened to kill the $5.2 billion project.
California voters are green-lighting the nation's most ambitious high-speed rail system, approving a nearly $10 billion bond to put speeding bullet trains capable of topping 200 mph between the state's major metropolitan areas.
Baghdad commuters have a new way to bypass the city's checkpoints and congested, dusty streets with the launch of a commuter rail that travels 15 miles through Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in the heart of the capital.
President Bush has signed into law sweeping improvements in railroad safety that might have prevented the deadly collision of a commuter train and a freight train in Los Angeles last month.
The federal government is chipping in nearly $30 million for 15 passenger rail projects across the country as Americans continue to drive less and take the train more, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday.
A century and a half after California built its first railroad, the Golden State may be about to launch the most ambitious rail project undertaken by any state — a nearly 800-mile system of bullet trains that can top 200 mph.
An out-of-service bus driven by a mechanic collided with a light rail train near downtown Los Angeles during the morning rush Friday, injuring 15 people and rattling commuters a week after a deadly train crash in a suburb.
Joshua David remembers vividly the first time he stepped out onto the rusted-over elevated railway track that snaked above Manhattan.
Police say a bomb hit a rail track in southwestern Pakistan killing two children.
Mayor Karen Darch's phone started ringing minutes after one of North America's largest railroads announced plans to more than quadruple the number of freight trains rumbling daily through this upscale Chicago suburb.
Some facts about the U.S. rail freight system:
Railway executive Matthew Rose stood before fellow industry leaders, pointing to a map meant to tell the future of the U.S. rail freight network. It was drenched in red — east to west, north to south.
A train car loaded with lumber rolled from a side track onto a main line and hit a stationary commuter train during rush hour Tuesday afternoon, sending dozens of people to hospitals, authorities said.
The first customers sipped bubbly at Europe's longest champagne bar and boarded high-speed trains to Paris and Brussels as London's St. Pancras station reopened Wednesday after a seven-year, $1.6 billion refurbishment.