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Please step away from the antitrust bill, the Association of American Railroads is urging Congress, as the nation’s top freight rail lobbying group calls for a national rail policy review rather

BNSF Railway is putting 25 new-generation locomotives to work in its fleet, using a fresh model from GE Transportation that aims for a type of medium-duty power market in linehaul train moves.

Arnold B. McKinnon, Norfolk Southern’s second chairman, died May 18 in Washington D.C. He was 81.

A bill to strip railroads of a limited antitrust immunity could move to the Senate floor for a vote soon after Congress returns from its upcoming Memorial Day recess.

A study released May 19 by the Consumer Federation of America claims railroads overcharge consumers $3 billion a year as a result of monopoly pricing power.

A bipartisan resolution in the Illinois state senate is pivoting off a controversial rail merger outside Chicago, as it asks President Obama to name a community-minded freight specialist to fill a fed

Pacer International's shift from a $13 million profit in the first quarter to a $177 million loss this year is a strong sign the intermodal landscape itself has shifted.

U.S. industrial output fell 0.5 percent in April from March, leaving it 12.5 percent below April 2008, the Federal Reserve said.

Against a backdrop of falling profits, plunging traffic and rising rail layoffs, Norfolk Southern Railway’s chairman, president and CEO tried to reassure shareholders at the company’s annu

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The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Canadian National Railway vowed to cut the number of long delays at road crossings caused by train operations over its newly acquired Chicago-area short line, and did just that.

A federal forecast for weak grain output this year could push up commodity prices and spur farmers and grain elevators to release more from their stockpiles to put into railcars for shipment to market

The recession dragged intermodal shipping volume down 16.3 percent in the first quarter, the largest drop ever recorded by the Intermodal Association of North America.

GE Transportation plans to build a $100 million factory to make high-power batteries that it says are a key to putting hybrid-drive power systems into heavy freight locomotives, harbor tug boats and m

CSX Transportation and a major chemical shipper that has led the charge against rail rate increases, E.I.

Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two U.S. builders of big line-haul locomotives for the rail freight industry, tapped Michael P.

Norfolk Southern last week idled most operations at a Columbus, Ohio facility and will lay off 86 workers there in July.

Even with a first-quarter loss on its books and its large Mexico operations in a swine flu hot zone, Kansas City Southern could be in a good spot.

Large North American railroads are pushing their base pricing steadily higher, even with the worst freight market in decades.

As a measure of how tough the freight rail market is these days, short lines had their best week of 2009 in hauling basic stone and related materials used in heavy construction, yet that category was

The key lawmaker for transportation policies in the House of Representatives lauded President Obama’s budget plan for its unprecedented spending requests for passenger rail systems.

With all the talk about the economy starting to find a bottom to its steep downturn, large railroads are still seeing declines so large that a key industry official is sounding a warning.

A 73 percent drop in first quarter net income and 15 percent revenue slide still left rail equipment maker American Railcar Industries with $261 million in cash.

Pacer International’s main business line, its intermodal segment, lost $129 million in sales or 32 percent in the first quarter as it led the company toward a $177 million net loss.

Forced to take a large write-down of “goodwill” as business weakened, intermodal provider Pacer International posted a net loss of $177.4 million for the first quarter and warned it might

Scratch another 2,000 jobs, the Class I railroads told the Surface Transportation Board.

Intermodal and logistics firm Pacer International is promoting several executives and changing its management design, in the first phase of a restructuring that Pacer said aims to cut costs, boost com

Sometimes even a good financial report can show how bad the economy is.

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Europe’s two top railroads, Germany’s Deutsche Bahn and France’s SNCF, are clashing for supremacy of the continent’s rail freight business.

Members of Congress and the short line railroad industry are humming a riff full of sour notes over a strangled loan pool gasping for support.

The country’s Class I railroads remain profitable, but they’re starting to feel the economy’s sharp edge.

Kansas City Southern, the only North American Railroad with large-scale operations in both the United States and Mexico, says the swine flu outbreak had not been affecting rail operations up to May 1.

A flailing freight market took a weekly gauge of short line traffic to its lowest level of the year, but some cargoes still managed to hit their highest totals of this spring.

The Mexican government will shut down private business, including factories and transportation operations, for five days starting Friday as the country tries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus.

For one week, at least, freight traffic at major U.S. railroads was clearly better, across a range of categories.

Kansas City Southern, parent of the smallest U.S. Class 1 railroad and a Mexico rail unit that once supplied nearly half its revenue, lost $7.5 million in the first quarter.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico plummeted a record 30.9 percent from February a year ago to $47.9 bi