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Take a trip through the beautiful Upper Midwest -- and back in time -- with a ride on this old-fashioned steam train with festive seasonal and holiday routes.

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After Oakland, Calif., reneged on a contract allowing coal shipments, a Kentucky company went under. Courts say the city may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. By Soumya Karlamangla ...

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Chinese-backed company Yancoal wants to extend the life of its central Queensland coal mine to 2070. The extension will see 74 million tonnes of coal extracted over the life of the mine. A ...

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The railroad line that runs through the Peninsula has reopened after an Oct. 25 derailment in New Kent County, but the cleanup continues. Two locomotives and 53 train cars derailed near Providence ...