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Canadian Pacific Railway’s profit of $183 million in the third quarter increased 14 percent from $161 million in 2008.

Canadian National Railway will have to expand its monthly reporting to regulators about its newly acquired short line outside Chicago, as the Surface Transportation Board said the reports must include

An activist rail shippers’ lobbying group pushed back hard against an industry proposal for Congress to make only limited change in laws governing rail competition.

The intermodal industry could be facing its biggest shakeup of the decade, as two large intermodal intermediaries and at least two big railroads are reportedly talking about big contracts — ending one

In the push to mingle more passenger trains in the cargo-dominated rail network, U.S. freight railroads got a key show of support from the Obama administration.

A significant contributor came out of the RMI RailConnect index of short line traffic starting the week of Oct. 17, taking a bite out of several cargo categories.

RailRunner, developer of a container-based intermodal transport system, signed a 10-year agreement under which its products will be manufactured, operated, distributed and sold in India by Kolkata-bas

An advisory panel of railroads and freight shippers that meets regularly with the Surface Transportation Board is urging Congress to adopt cargo switching rules favored by shipper groups, but it bogge

BNSF Railway’s profit of $488 million in the recession-struck third quarter was down 29.8 percent from a year earlier, as revenue fell 26.7 percent to $3.49 billion.

Major U.S. railroads continued to load their trains last week at a pace close to recent levels, in keeping with a freight recovery that is now moving in a narrow volume range.

People who operate airplanes, locomotives, trucks and buses would still be in violation of Department of Transportation rules against drug use if they use marijuana, despite a reported shift by federa

Union Pacific Railroad generated a profit of $517 million in the third quarter, down 26 percent from a year earlier as revenue fell 25 percent to $3.47 billion.

Major infrastructure development is at a standstill in Southern California and other regions because planners are not leveraging the economic, environmental and community benefits of an efficient good

Intermodal marketing company Hub Group reported a $9.8 million profit in the third quarter, down 42 percent from a year earlier as revenue of $389 million fell 24 percent.

Jobs at major U.S. railroads got scarcer from mid-August to mid-September than at any other point in the recession so far.

Canadian National Railway is ordering 70 new high-horsepower locomotives, splitting them evenly between suppliers GE Transportation and Electro-Motive Diesel.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a case that should clarify what laws apply when international shipments are damaged in transit within the United States.

Canadian National Railway’s net income slid 16.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $439 million, on an 18 percent drop in revenue to $1.758 billion.

The Federal Railroad Administration issued a “preliminary national rail plan” as required under a 2008 law to give some structure to developing passenger train service alongside the freigh

Canadian National Railway said its trains blocked roadway crossings eight times during September when trains stopped for 10 minutes or more along the suburban Chicago rail line it recently acquired.

One of the last areas of the freight sector to recover from severe recession may be the rail equipment market. With an estimated 500,000 railcars or more parked across the U.S.

Hallmark Cards once used the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for virtually all its imports into the United States.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on Thursday placed National President Edward Rodzwicz on a leave of absence pending outcome of the charges levied against him by the U.S.

North America’s small railroads – regional carriers and low-mileage short lines – pushed their volume to 92,646 new loads in the week ending Oct.

New intermodal loadings spiked at major U.S. railroads last week to their peak level so far this year, but carloads of bulk materials and heavy machinery or equipment slumped.

Membership is growing in a worldwide organization dedicated to stopping cargo crime.

Edward W. Rodzwicz, national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, faces a federal charge of bribery.

Freight transportation was on the upswing through the summer, as indicated by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s closely watched Transportation Services Index.

A well-known rail and intermodal analyst, Ed Wolfe of Wolfe Research, is projecting that Pacer International could end up renegotiating its cut-rate contract with Union Pacific Railroad by getting out

Short line operator RailAmerica may be looking for acquisitions now that it has completed an initial public offering of stock, said Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

Surface transportation should show modest growth through 2010 and then take off strongly in 2011 with double-digit growth in volume, a Schneider Logistics executive said Tuesday.

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Short line holding company Genesee &Wyoming said traffic fell 16.7 percent in the third quarter on lines it held a year earlier, but newly acquired properties brought in enough business that its c

RailAmerica said its initial public offering of stock – 10.5 million shares by the short line holding firm and 11.5 million by an affiliate of its owner, Fortress Investment Group – priced

Executives of the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads will join representatives of the six major West Coast container ports to promote the ports as an efficient and environmentally-friendly gateway for A

Rail traffic was already on shaky ground when heavy rainstorms in the Southeast waterlogged key parts of the national network during what should have been a busy workweek.

A minority stake in the short line holding company RailAmerica, owned by Fortress Investment Group, will be offered for sale through an initial public offering of common stock.

A former top rail regulatory lawyer is asking the Surface Transportation Board to review its December decision allowing Canadian National Railway to acquire a suburban Chicago short line.

Freight traffic at North America’s small railroads turned in its strongest weekly performance since Aug. 22, in the RMI RailConnect index of short line activity.