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 ...

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 ...

As a young boy growing up in the 1960s, John Cartwright had a father who worked for the Great Northern Railway and understood and nurtured his son’s fascination with trains. The father and son ...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota’s railroads are becoming safer, railroad officials and legislative transportation leaders agree. The state’s four largest railroads invested more than $500 million on ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota railroad officials are strongly opposing a bill at the state legislature which toughens up rail safety laws, calling it unnecessary. The bill greatly expands rail safety ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- In the wake of fiery derailments in Canada and North Dakota, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday signed into law a measure requiring railroad and oil pipeline companies ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's railroads are becoming safer, railroad officials and legislative transportation leaders agree.The state's four largest railroads invested more than $500 million on ...

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 beyond that ...

Morton, Minnesota, is a railroad town. It has been since 1884, when the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway crossed the Minnesota River on a mile-long timber trestle on its way to South Dakota. Morton was ...

ST. PAUL - Railroads should foot the bill of improving rail safety, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said Friday as he announced a proposal to tax them nearly $100 million annually. The Democratic governor ...

Railroads have been ramping up shipments of volatile North Dakota crude oil through Minnesota for much of the past decade. Now, Minnesota has its first official state estimate of how many people live ...