The Dunnellon City Council won't try to join Marion County's lawsuit over stacked railroad ties. A fire on Feb. 1 involving the creosote-treated ties has heightened residents' health and safety ...

Retired Norfolk Southern CEO David Goode addresses the crowd at the National Railroad Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Roanoke, Va., on March 12, 2026. NS ROANOKE, Va. — The National Railroad Hall ...

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DUNNELLON, Fla. — Dozens of Dunnellon residents turned out for a city council workshop on Monday night to voice their concerns about possible hazardous conditions caused by a railroad tie fire on ...

Demand for railroad crossties means business for area lumber mills, providing a lifeline during the housing slump.

DUNNELLON, Fla. — Dunnellon residents are demanding answers on why a huge pile of railroad ties caught fire last weekend along a railway in the city. Crews are now removing thousands of ties while ...

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Many of the Hancock County community’s residents are elderly landowners living on land passed down since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

They had started west from Las Animas in late summer 1875, led by teams of “tie men” who ascended the Arkansas River into the Rockies to harvest timber for wooden crossties, which were floated ...

Nearly 400 representatives from Class I’s and short lines to suppliers, contractors, and the associations that represent them ...

The Valencia County Fire Department also said the structure was built with railroad ties, telephone poles and bricks, making ...

POLO, Ill. (WIFR) - Beth Weigmann holds a map with black lines zig-zagging between communities across northern Illinois. “You can see on this map the dark areas that were pretty much documented,” says ...