WASHINGTON – The Surface Transportation Board has ordered the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Inc. (CORP) to sell a 111-mile railroad line running from Danebo, Ore., to Cordes, Ore., to The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
In a separate decision, the Board granted CORP authority to abandon a 94-mile segment of the Line in the [...]

WASHINGTON – The Surface Transportation Board announced that it will hold a public field hearing on Dec. 4, 2008, in Las Vegas to hear public testimony related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) application for authority to build the proposed “Caliente Line.”
The line is a 300-mile rail line that would connect an [...]

MARIETTA, Ga. — A Pullman railcar that has been parked just of the city’s square for decades has been sold and could soon be moved.
The city of Marietta in recent months has claimed that the railcar is a blight and cited the owner with a code violation. The railcar, which has been in the city [...]

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board will hold a public meeting Nov. 6 to discuss the independent study by Christensen Associates assessing the current state of competition in the freight railroad industry in the United States.
The Board also announced that the Christensen study will be released to the public, via the Board’s website at www.stb.dot.gov, [...]

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Oct. 28 to review its list of Most Wanted safety recommendations directed at federal agencies.
The Most Wanted List was developed in 1990 to focus attention on safety improvements the Board believes will have the greatest impact on transportation safety. Some of [...]

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern hauled 49.67 million tons of coal in the third quarter of 2008, an all-time quarterly high driven by strong export demand and more shipments of domestic metallurgical coal.
Third-quarter 2008 coal tonnage increased 6 percent, up from 46.84 million tons during the same period last year. The previous record for any [...]

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern Corporation reported third-quarter 2008 net income of $520 million, or $1.37 per diluted share, compared with $386 million, or $0.97 per diluted share, for the same period of 2007. Third-quarter income from railway operations increased 31 percent to a record $894 million.
“Our third quarter performance again demonstrates the strength of [...]

NELSON, British Columbia — A decommissioned locomotive maintenance building near the Nelson waterfront will be demolished, Canadian Pacific Real Estate Vice-President John Walsh and Nelson Mayor John Dooley said.
CP anticipates the demolition will be complete next year.
“I am very pleased that Canadian Pacific has agreed to demolish the diesel shop,” said Mayor Dooley. “We have [...]

WASHINGTON –Rail fatalities increased slightly in 2007 from 2006, according to preliminary figures released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Overall, transportation fatalities in all modes totaled 43,193 in 2007, compared to 45,085 in 2006.
“While statistics show that transportation fatalities have declined this past year,” said Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker, “there is still much work to [...]

WASHINGTON – The President has signed into law the Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2008. National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker praised Congress and the President for passage of the bill, saying that it will help bring about safety improvements long sought by the Safety Board.
The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 [...]