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Watco, a private short line holding company, began operating its 36-mile Boise Valley Railroad this week in Idaho as the latest of 22 Watco railroads.

Canadian National Railway could face a strike by locomotive engineers for its Canadian operations as early as Nov.

Members of two Senate committees are still working on details of how much to curb a limited antitrust immunity freight railroads now enjoy.

Railroads just got something extra to appreciate in the week before the two-day Thanksgiving holiday period, with the week ending Nov.

Union Pacific Railroad began running double-stacked container trains over the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range after a 12-month construction project to carve out bigger tunnel clearance

BNSF Railway implemented a “permit embargo” to control movement of export grain shipments to backed-up seaports in the Pacific Northwest, after heavy rains slowed ship loadings.

Locomotive engineers for Canadian National Railway are getting a small raise and work-rule change they did not bargain for, after talks between the two collapsed.

Paul T. Sorrow became national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen in the wake of bribery charges last month against then-President Edward W. Rodzwicz.

A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying sulfuric acid derailed early Sunday morning in Gilbert, S.C., the WLTX Web site reported Nov. 23.

Annual Christmas sales are always huge events for freight-hauling industries.

For several years, the Surface Transportation Board has been confronted with issues surrounding merger and acquisition premiums paid in most of the recent major transactions involving railroads.

Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

Unhappy Chicago suburbs will get independent review of Canadian National Railway’s reports on the impact of the railroads's operations there, the Surface Transportation Board said Frid

A new study by the Federal Railroad Administration says Class I freight railoads boosted their fuel efficiency by 21.5 percent from 1990 to 2006, aided by adoption of more fuel-efficient locomotives a

Chicago’s package of construction projects to untangle a time-wasting spaghetti bowl of freight and passenger rail lines officially got a little smaller, but it remains a huge plan that is widel

Aided by grain loadings and increases in a number of other cargoes, small North American railroads picked up more shipments in the week ending Nov. 14 than in the previous week.

A boost in several large cargoes, including a new 2009 peak for hauls of motor vehicles and equipment, lifted traffic at major U.S. railroads in the week ending Nov. 14.

Montana is suing BNSF Railway over payments for a short line’s grain shipments, while BNSF is saying “our actions are legal” and that it is trying to offer the state’s shippers

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Rail carriers and their customers were encouraged by the brief peak shipping season this fall and anticipate modest growth in traffic in 2010.

The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could cause a change in how the Surface Transportation Board calculates a key cost formula that helps it shape some ra

The U.S. lines of the seven Class I railroads trimmed another 408 jobs as of mid-October from a month earlier, taking their total employment level down to a new low.

After Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway concludes his deal to buy up BNSF Railway, the investor says he will expect a “reasonable return” on any added capital investment he puts in

Pennsylvania’s governor joined with Philadelphia’s mayor and the chairman, president and CEO of eastern-U.S.

Investor Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm has moved quickly to shed its holdings in railroads other than BNSF Railway, which it plans to buy out for $26 billion.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.

Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Despite all the talk that weak intermodal volumes this year meant there was not really a normal “peak,” the major industry group that tracks shipments says traffic actually rose this fall

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Small North American railroads picked up more tankcar loads of chemicals last week than at the end of October and enjoyed a sizable gain in coal loadings, for a gain in overall traffic in the latest R

Total intermodal volume in the United States and Canada during the third quarter fell 16.4 percent compared with the same period last year, to 2,995,043 units, the Intermodal Association of North Amer

Bulk railcar loadings slipped while intermodal traffic picked up in the latest week for major railroads operating in the United States.

Freight railcar and barge builder Greenbrier posted a $6.7 million profit in the June-August period that was its fiscal fourth quarter, for its best result of the past year even though net income was

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

Reporting quarterly earnings for the first time since it went public with a new stock offering last month, short line railroad operator RailAmerica posted a 21 percent increase in profit to $3.5 milli

West Coast port directors and executives from the two Class I western railroads meeting in China cited their region's deep-water ports and extensive ocean and intermodal rail services as reasons why t

The rail reform bill being prepared for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, said a key Republican senator.

The planned purchased of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not trigger a special compensation package for the railroad’s CEO, who plans to stay aboard and has offici