Rail News

President Obama formally tendered the nominations of Joseph C. Szabo as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, and Linda A. Puchala to serve on the National Mediation Board.

The Indianapolis-based regional Indiana Rail Road wants the Surface Transportation Board quickly to approve its plan to build a 5.2-mile link to a large new coal mine.

Major freight railroads got another week of less-bad news, as the year-over-year carload decline was the mildest in the past four weeks.

The Port of Los Angeles is launching an incentive program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail into the port.

As chair of the full Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opened a hearing March 25 on the need for transportation investment in relation to the next highway, trans

The international president of the largest rail labor organization, the United Transportation Union, is calling for railroads and customers to settle their fight over rail industry regulation, and rea

Norfolk Southern Railway said Mark D. Manion will be chief operating officer of its parent corporation as of April 1, with the March 31 retirement of Stephen C.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a major ratings agency for corporate debt, lowered its long-term corporate credit rating for Kansas City Southern to “B&r

Kansas City Southern is issuing more debt for its Mexican operations and may issue stock for its U.S.-based company, to boost liquidity as traffic and revenue fall.

Hub Group, one of the leading intermodal service middleman firms and a truck brokerage provider, said traffic and pricing have weakened its earnings outlook for the near term.

The Port of Seattle is postponing the acquisition of the BNSF Eastside Rail Corridor because of the continuing difficulty of raising capital in the nation's bond markets.

Talks between railcar manufacturer Greenbrier and General Electric’s car leasing unit to curb or delay a huge order “are currently stalled,” said Greenbrier President and CEO William

A fight between railroads and chlorine shippers is turning caustic.

A new short line railroad that will speed intermodal service in the New England-New York corridor will start rolling as early as May after winning approval from federal regulators.

North America’s small railroads continued reporting heavy traffic declines in the second week of March, as the RMI RailConnect index said volume for all cargo types fell 24.69 percent in the wee

President Obama said he plans to nominate Robert S.

Cross-country intermodal partners BNSF Railway in the West and CSX Intermodal in the East recently expanded their container service to more Southeast cities.

The Greenbrier Hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections, and said it has a deal under which Marriott will buy the resort owned by railroad operator CSX Corp.

London – France’s main seaports are at a standstill and rail freight is being severely disrupted as thousands of longshoremen and rail workers join a general strike to protest the governme

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President Obama said he wants Joseph C. Szabo, the state legislative director in Illinois for the United Transportation Union, to head the Federal Railroad Administration.

Class I railroads as a group cut 1,678 jobs by mid-January from a month earlier, as the recession deepened and freight traffic remained sharply below year-earlier levels.

The weakening economy reared its head in the latest data on trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, showing year-over-year surface transportation growth of imports and exports in 2008 to b

The Producer Price Index in the transportation and warehousing sector slowed to 0.5 percent in February from 0.8 percent in January.

London -- France's freight transport system faces paralysis on March 19 as longshoremen, railroad workers, truckers and air cargo handlers join a 24-hour general strike to protest against President Ni

CSX Transportation is putting four new genset yard locomotives into its Barr rail yard in Riverdale near Chicago, doubling its fleet of the low-emission power units.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia will add its inaugural call at the Port of Charleston to its North America service during the week of March 30, the South Carolina State Port Authority sa

Kansas City Southern is telling customers that security statistics for its rail operations in Mexico “show outstanding performance and continuous improvement.”

The European Shippers’ Council and the European Rail Freight Customers’ Platform today agreed to merge into a single organization.

Business is very slow for manufacturers in New York, according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Industrial production, a key measure of shipping demand, fell 1.4 percent in February, according to a report from the Federal Reserve.

President Obama named Francis P.

While expanding railroad profits during the economic downturn are drawing shipper attention, the hundreds of small carriers that feed into the Class Is are scrambling for any freight and government he

The economy and efforts to tighten transportation regulation are colliding together in Congress.

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is getting the short line its shippers wanted, and the chance to get the mostly closed rail route back in op

Short line traffic braked harder in the latest week, as measured both from the same time in 2008 and against the pace of industry activity since January.

The recession kept hitting every category of commodity and consumer goods carried on U.S. railroads in the first week of March.

Kansas City Southern Railway has joined the list of major railroads starting to incorporate the low-emission “genset” switcher locomotives to its fleet, as it refit two engines for its Por