LA CROSSE, Wis. – A century-old railroad swing bridge will soon get a lift.
During the last week of April, Canadian Pacific Railway will replace a 307-foot truss swing span with a more modern rolling bascule span, turning its 1902 swing bridge over the Black River between La Crosse and French Island into a lift bridge. […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Canadian Pacific Railway dispatcher Jimmy Norris insists it’s a simple matter to keep the Hiawatha trains on time better than any other Amtrak route in the country.
Don’t be fooled.
Preparation and knowing the train crews and the territory are key, Norris acknowledges.
“It takes a lot of planning when there are a lot of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company is planning to expand its Tennessee Yard, an intermodal facility in Memphis.
The expansion project represents a $40 million capital investment and will create about 150 new jobs over the next few years.
“This cooperative agreement with the City of Memphis and Shelby County […]

WASHINGTON — The nation’s freight railroads have implemented a security plan that utilizes intelligence data to ensure the security of the system, a Senate hearing on transportation security was told in March.
Edward R. Hamberger, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Railroads, told the Senate Commerce Committee that after […]

MONTREAL — Canadian National and the Canadian Auto Workers union have reached a tentative agreement.
CN, however, is withholding details of the agreement until it is ratified. The railroad said the agreement is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2004.
CAW shopcraft, intermodal and clerical members remain on strike at CN, as they have been since […]