WASHINGTON — Two regional railroads serving agriculture and communities in western Minnesota will share $2.6 million in funding from the infrastructure law, the Federal Railroad Administration of the ...

The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to help pay for 122 projects nationwide with more than half of the money going to smaller railroads, including in Minnesota. The ...

ST. PAUL -- Many Minnesota emergency managers say railroads that haul crude oil should communicate with them better. "Planning done in a silo is not effective," Director Judson Freed of Ramsey County ...

Lower rates across the board are not the work of a monopoly and do not justify additional, conflicting regulation. Efforts to re-regulate the rail industry and remove its limited antitrust exemptions ...

ST. PAUL - Western North Dakota's oil boom puts Minnesota in a dangerous position, a key Minnesota lawmaker says, and the state should increase its rail oil safety oversight. Most of the highly ...

DENVER – For decades, railroads have been able to both cut costs and improve safety. But union railroad workers – and federal statistics – suggest we may have reached a tipping point. Railroads cite ...

ST. PAUL -- Railroads carrying hazardous materials across Minnesota came forward Wednesday with a plan to pay more for safer road crossings and training. "The railroads plan to step forward and assist ...

(TNS) - The emergency management director for St. Paul held up a sheet of paper covered with a large black square. It was a redacted record he had requested to learn how railroad companies would ...

Federal investigators say BNSF railroad is analyzing a section of fractured rail after last month's fiery derailment that prompted evacuations in southwest Minnesota, but they didn't say definitively ...

The Last Stop: Railroad Depots of Minnesota is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, ...

ST. PAUL — A new Minnesota law aims to protect the state from hazards created by increasing amounts of oil passing through Minnesota by rail and pipeline. Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill Tuesday. The ...