Rail News

Kansas City Southern is celebrating a new rail segment in Texas this week that it hopes can open a new era in its cross-border freight traffic and nab more intermodal loads.

Norfolk Southern Railway said it plans to build a $129 million Memphis Regional Intermodal Terminal east of that city in Rossville, Tenn., with a targeted opening date of January 2012.

Carloadings of bulk materials and machinery rose in the latest week to the strongest level in three months at major U.S. railroads, as freight picked up after the slow July 4 holiday period.

APM Terminals in Aarhus, Denmark, has started a new rail shuttle service from the Port of Aarhus to Copenhagen.

Transportation executives looking for clues as to when the U.S.

CSX Transportation saw revenue fall 24.8 percent and net profit drop 20 percent on a sharp decline in shipping in the second quarter, but the railroad still managed a $308 million profit and said it m

Rail industry sources expect a Senate committee to soon unveil a bill that would overhaul railroad regulations and alter the Surface Transportation Board.

A controversial 2007 plan to merge two large labor groups in the AFL-CIO, the United Transportation Union of train conductors and other rail workers with the Sheet Metal Workers International Associat

Will shorter work assignments equate to the same pay for unionized rail workers? A federal court has been asked to decide.

At a time when North American railroads are idling equipment and workers, slashing capital project spending and trying to ride out a severe traffic slump, Kansas City Southern is celebrating the compl

As it struggles to stay on track and regain speed, Pacer International faces a deadline.

President Obama is filling out his team to regulate railroads.

Intermodal Traffic may be down, but the companies that put containers and trailers on trains aren’t out for the count.

Short line railroads surveyed for the RMI RailConnect index hauled 85,276 combined carloads and intermodal units in the week ending July 4, well ahead of the Memorial Day week at the end of May but no

Major U.S. railroads reported stronger traffic over the July 4 holiday period than over the Memorial Day week, and had the lowest decline in year-over-year numbers since March.

In a significant step that will help speed freight movements in the country, Indian Railways announced plans to operate container trains with fixed schedules and assured transit times.

President Obama nominated Daniel R. Elliott III, an associate general counsel at the United Transportation Union, to become the next chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.

Freight traffic at major U.S.

Despite faint signs that parts of the freight industry are bottoming out or even picking up after a long slide, don’t look for bunches of “green shoots” to push through the tracks.

An impending cap on hours worked by train crews has major U.S. railroads wanting to alter pay agreements to reflect the curbs, and they have asked a federal court to quickly step in.

The Cass Freight Index of domestic U.S.

Pacer International, one of the top consolidators of domestic intermodal shipments on the nation’s railroads, said it has negotiated a compliance waiver for its credit leverage amount with a syn

Union Pacific Railroad sold 33 track miles north of Denver to Colorado’s Regional Transportation District for $118 million, in the first and largest of four land transfer deals to develop commut

In counting up railroads that are spending time on the possibilities of electrified freight train operations, don't include CSX Transportation.

Kansas City Southern started receiving the first of 27 yard locomotives and road switcher units that have gone through a re-power upgrade that cuts fuel use and emissions.

A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded just before midnight Monday outside the seaside resort of Viareggio, Italy.

CSX is committing to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 8 percent by 2011 under a voluntary federal environmental program, the railroad said Monday.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy

Short line railroads have posted their best three weeks of freight volume since March, suggesting a mild pickup may be under way after traffic slumped severely in the spring.

WATERLOO, Iowa — Dan Sabin stands atop a levee next to the Cedar River and recalls the dark days a year ago when it looked like his Iowa Northern Railway was losing a fight for its very existence agai

It’s not part of the stimulus money coursing from federal coffers through state highway budgets, but a Department of Transportation program just sent $5.2 million to 14 states to help pay for innovati

Class I railroad operations in the U.S. shed an additional 2,727 employees from mid-April to mid-May, putting rail employment at the major lines down to the lowest level in this decade.

When you look for green shoots, think scrap.

London – The slump in European rail freight traffic that began in the final quarter of 2008 is deepening as major shippers slash production and shutter plants and trucks cut freight rates to boo

President Obama plans to nominate aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Two key senators, who chair committees important to transportation infrastructure, urged the Senate to set aside at least $50 million for rail safety technology grants.

Canadian National Railway told regulators it made more progress last month in trimming the number of street-clogging train incidents on the Chicago-area short line tracks it recently acquired.

Federal officials are investigating the derailment of 18 tanker cars of a Canadian National Railway train that ran off the tracks and exploded near Rockford, Ill., killing a woman at a crossing.

Intermodal movements were a drag on rail freight traffic in the week ending June 13.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.