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Vehicles will soon start rolling off ships at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.

County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has appointed a task force to try and create a profitable future for the land that once held a thriving steel mill.

State officials looking to tap anticipated growth in the East Coast shipping industry are back at the drawing board after abandoning a freight rail project that has been central to their strategy for half a decade.

A broken rail along train tracks in Ellicott City caused the massive coal train derailment that killed two local women in 2012, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation have filed lawsuits against the Maryland Department of Environment to block it from releasing information on their shipments of crude oil through the state, according to court records.

An 18-year-old man was hospitalized Sunday evening after he fell from a train on the CSX rail line in the Joppa area.

A pedestrian was struck by an Amtrak train early Sunday in Aberdeen.

State and federal transportation officials studying the replacement of an aged rail tunnel beneath Baltimore are opening the discussion to local residents and Amtrak and MARC commuters.

Officials with Amtrak are seeking the public's input as they begin a three-year study regarding the refurbishment – or replacement – of their 108-year-old railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River between Harford and Cecil counties.

Less than 12 hours before an Amtrak train derailed in the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel in West Baltimore on Monday — shutting down travel for thousands of evening commuters — Mitch Warren was telling some of Maryland's top transportation officials and industry leaders just how much of a problem the tunnel is.

John C. Magness, Canton Railroad Co.'s president and CEO, shares his thoughts on where the company is headed.

High-speed rail is the future of long-distance travel

An Edgewood man crashed his car into a slow-moving freight train going through Havre de Grace early Friday morning, Havre de Grace police said.

The Sparrows Point steel mill is so intertwined with parts of eastern Baltimore County that everyone in the area seems to be affected — or knows someone who is.

A collision between a gasoline tanker truck and a car in Port Deposit Friday night caused a fire that spread to several buildings, Maryland State Police said.

It could take months or even years before the independent federal agency reaches a conclusion about the cause of the CSX train derailment in Ellicott City that ended with Rose Mayr and Elizabeth Nass, both 19, buried in coal on a railroad bridge in the historic downtown.

The derailment that killed two young women in Ellicott City yesterday adds once more incident to a long history of CSX trains leaving the tracks in Maryland – from little-remembered events in the company's own train yards to the spectacular fire in the Howard Street Tunnel in 2001.

Port Deposit residents who had been evacuated were allowed to return late Wednesday afternoon and the propane tanker that had crashed into the Tome's Landing condominium complex was finally removed.

A Port Deposit condominium complex was evacuated and all roads into the town closed after an 18-wheel propane tanker crashed into a building.

Repairs beginning to prevent "catastrophic" failure of regional water main; public works officials ask 1.8 million area residents to conserve water

There's a new exhibit waiting to greet summer visitors to Delaware's Cape Henlopen State Park, and it is a 16-inch gun that once roared from the deck of the battleship USS Missouri during World War II.

Perryville audit says town has $1.3 million surplus at end of fiscal year 2012

Perryville Board of Commissioners reviews rental dwelling code, while one questions whether it is necessary at all