Rail News

A landmark revamping of federal rail regulations cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, but some tough issues including whether to strip railroads of some antitrust immunit

Florida will pay CSX Transportation $432 million for a 61-mile track segment after Gov. Charlie Crist on Dec. 16 signed into law a measure to boost passenger rail operations.

Ethanol terminal operator U.S. Development Group said its West Colton Rail Terminal at Rialto, Calif., has started handling ethanol railcars from Union Pacific Railroad.

The Dec. 15 transition of its chief executive by intermodal provider Pacer International had been planned for some time, said incoming Chairman and CEO Daniel W. Avramovich.

An Iowa Pacific Holdings short line railroad in Texas launched a major upgrade over 70 miles of track, using a recent loan from the Federal Railroad Administration.

The Greenbrier Companies agreed with General Electric Railcar Services to modify GER's railcar manufacturing contract by reducing the order from 11,900 to 6,000 railcars.

Freight services provider Pacer International said Tuesday Chairman and CEO Michael E. Uremovich is leaving the company immediately and will be replaced by Daniel W.

Fitch Ratings expects modest volume improvements in 2010 for the U.S.

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Union Pacific Railroad packed more unit trains of agricultural products in November than ever in its history, with 400 all-crop trains topping the previous high of 381 in October 2006.

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an ac

Major U.S. railroads posted their highest new loadings of chemical cargoes in 2009 during the week ending Dec. 5, a signal of stirring industrial demand.

Railroads and their customers are getting their first look at a long-awaited bill that would overhaul federal regulations governing shippers’ access to competitive service and how their disputes

The $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment firm cleared a key antitrust review process.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is backing a sale of seven locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel to Iron Ore Company of Canada, with a $10 million loan guarantee for commercial bank financing.

While the economy’s collapse cut intermodal volumes and some rail lines focused on long-term corridor construction, Union Pacific Railroad went tunneling in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

When Teamsters locomotive engineers launched a strike against Canadian National Railway on Nov.

An Iowa short line railroad will receive a federal grant of nearly $7 million to rebuild a bridge torn away in June 2008 by the flooding Cedar River.

Big U.S. railroads reached a new milestone even as the Thanksgiving holiday trimmed their work week, with bulk carloads showing the smallest decline so far this year from 2008 levels.

Rail equipment builder GE Transportation signed up Brazilian railway operator America Latina Logistica as a new customer, with an order to deliver 10 new locomotives to ALL this year.

Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec.

For the first time, the short line industry won endorsements from a majority of members in both houses of Congress for legislation to extend a track repairs tax credit.

OTTAWA --- Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters union representing 1,700 striking Canadian locomotive engineers reached a contract agreement today just as Parliament was preparing to force them

Groupe Eurotunnel, the operator of the Channel tunnel between the UK and France, has acquired the French operations of Veolia Cargo, the biggest private rail cargo company in Europe's second largest r

Although ships are keeping their schedules at the Port of Halifax, N.S., the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway is affecting railcar supply and some marine operations.

The Port of Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s remote northern coast, although tied to the U.S.

The Canadian Industrial Transportation Association warned that the strike by train engineers against Canadian National Railway could derail the economy, and urged members of Parliament to unite around

Surface trade between the United States and its partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement completed a cycle in September of 12 consecutive months of steep declines. U.S.

Canadian National Railway is asking customers to help it line up their freight for easier train pickup by taking steps to curb railcar switching by CN while its locomotive engineers are on strike.

Port operations at Halifax, N.S., are feeling the impact of a locomotive engineers strike against Canadian National Railway.

Shippers in Canada are diverting some cargo away from Vancouver to U.S ports, as ripple effects spread from the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway.

Canada’s top West Coast port is warning the government and industry that the new strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway could leave lasting damage.

Canadian Pacific teamed up with the Canadian government’s Natural Resources ministry to test the use of biodiesel fuel, in what CP says will be “the first time biodiesel will be used in Ca

David A. Brown will become the chief operating officer at eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation when Tony Ingram retires from that post Dec. 31.

With North American demand for rail equipment still weak, locomotive builder GE Transportation is expanding operations in China while partnering with China’s Ministry of Railways to target U.S.

Warren Buffett’s buyout of BNSF Railway may be running smoothly toward completion early next year, but it is sending ripples down the tracks to rail lines and shippers.

Hoping to shift more freight off its road and onto rail, India is building a network of rail-based logistics hubs for its growing automotive industry.

It has taken all of this year, but if lawmakers get railroads and their customers to accept a legislative deal that Senate staff has been patching together for months, a major rail reform bill could m

Canada’s labor minister plans to offer legislation to force an end to the two-day-old strike against Canadian National Railway by locomotive engineers.

Locomotive engineers in Canada launched a strike against Canadian National Railway early Nov.