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Florida will pay CSX Transportation Inc. nearly half a billion dollars for a commuter rail in central Florida, officials said Thursday. About a third of the $491 million will fund 61 miles of CSX track in the Orlando area. The rest will be used to help the Jacksonville-based CSX expand its freight lines and operations. Read More... Read more...

France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a "concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail operator has said. It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge delays to TGV services already hit by a long transport union strike over reforms. Read More... Read more...

Popular Science magazine's Best of What's New awards for 2007 are out and General Electric has scored a victory with a mention of their Evolution Hybrid locomotive. The loco cuts both emissions and fuel consumption by capturing the train’s braking energy and using it to supplement the diesel engines. Read more... Read more...

A bitter three-day strike by train drivers in Germany has tied up freight traffic, shut down an auto factory and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, in what has become the largest work stoppage in the history of the German state railway system. But while the French strike is the result of a familiar power struggle between the labor unions and a new government, the German job action reflects what labor experts regard as a bold gamble by an isolated union. Read More... Read more...

Accelerating investment in US railroads' capacity could come to a halt if proposed legislation to re-regulate many of the railroads' prices is brought into force, the chief executives of three of the top five US railroads have warned. "The government needs to be careful because you're making decisions that determine how much business you want moving on the railroads long term," said Jim Young, CEO of Union Pacific. Read More... Read more...

Electric railway propulsion using onboard hydrogen fuel cells - is poised to replace both diesel electric locomotives and trains powered by track electrification. It will happen much faster than it took diesels to supplant steam locomotives. Where track electrification already exists, it's likely to last for a long time. But few if any new lines will be electrified; the capital risk is too great. Read More... Read more...

BNSF Railway Company has been ranked No. 1 in G.I. Jobs magazine's annual listing of the Top 50 Military-Friendly Employers, moving up from fourth place on last year's list. Only 2 percent of companies eligible for the list were included. BNSF offers enhanced and extended benefits for those employees called to active duty in the armed services, including make-whole pay and continued health-care benefits. Read More. Read more...

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