EDMONTON — Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer of CN, said the company will have invested almost C$400 million to buy and rehabilitate four short-line railways serving resource-rich regions of northern Alberta by year-end 2011.

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board will hear two oral arguments on May 12 at its Washington headquarters.

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board said its Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) has issued a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) for the R. J. Corman Railroad Company/Pennsylvania Lines Inc.’s (RJCP) proposed construction, operation, and reactivation of a 20-mile railroad line between Wallaceton and Gorton, in Clearfield and Centre Counties, Penn.

The Surface Transportation Board announced a public hearing to be held in Conejos, Colo., on a proposal by the San Luis and & Rio Grande Railroad to transfer onto railcars containers of contaminated dirt and debris from trucks originating at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The Board has instituted a declaratory order proceeding to determine whether the Board’s jurisdiction [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Patriot Rail Corp. has completed the acquisition of the six Weyerhaeuser Co. short line railroads, effective Dec. 30.

WASHINGTON — The STB is granting an exemption that allows Eighteen Thirty Group LLC to move forward with a plan to acquire and restore service an 8.54-mile line of railroad in Allegany County, Md.

WASHINGTON — Big Four Terminal Railroad (BFTR) has filed a verified notice of exemption to operate roughly 5.2 miles of rail line between Connorsville, Ind., and Beesons, Ind., according to a notice in the Federal Register.

WASHINGTON — The Wichita, Tillman Jackson Railway Co. has filed a notice of exemption to acquire slightly more than 61 miles of a rail line known as the Western Branch.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth & Western Railroad said that Steven George will retire in the first quarter of 2011 as president and chief executive officer of the Fort Worth-based 276-mile regional railroad.

WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board said it has completed its work in the multiparty effort to preserve freight train service in northern Maine.