Rail News

London -- France's state railway, SNCF, on March 11 reported losses at its freight unit widened to a record $430 million in 2008 from $328 million the previous year as core traffic plunged in the fina

Canadian National Railway is starting to move a few trains out of congested downtown Chicago tracks onto a short line route through area suburbs.

Freight transportation services declined in January for the third consecutive month, pulling the Department of Transportation’s index to its lowest level in more than five years.

Federal regulators cleared the way for Norfolk Southern Railway and northeastern short lines operator Pan Am Railways to launch a New England joint venture railroad.

The U.S. rail economic regulator will consider Union Pacific Railroad’s effort to avoid taking on new long hauls of chlorine.

Nova Scotia decided against pursuing a major gateway project involving the Port of Halifax and Canadian National Railway because of high costs.

North America’s short line railroads saw traffic in all categories fall 21.1 percent from a year earlier in the first eight weeks of 2009.

Short line operator Genesee & Wyoming said February freight traffic on railroads it held a year ago fell 6.4 percent, although the company’s new acquisitions lifted total volume.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

There’s another stimulus plan under way in Louisiana and Mississippi, where two new federal efforts are trying to help New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast recover from the powerful 200

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A leading freight transportation analyst warned March 9 he is cutting his volume and earnings estimates under a “deep recession, no recovery” U.S. forecast for all of 2009.

To the extent that weekly rail shipment reports are one of the earliest, up-to-date signs of the health of the economy, the patient is still in a lot of trouble.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

Polzug Intermodal launched its unit train project within the Caucasus Mountains connecting to central Asia.

When railroad executives from across North America descended on Capitol Hill recently, they were intent on pressing their case for investment tax credits and warding off pressure from lawmakers and re

Container Corp.

U.S. Rail freight traffic plumbed new depths in the week ending Feb. 28.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill March 5 to repeal limited antitrust exemptions for U.S.

American Railcar Industries saw fourth-quarter revenue rise 25 percent to $203 million from a year earlier, as production was boosted by an Alabama factory expansion, but net income fell 3.7 percent t

The sinking freight market may push manufacturer Greenbrier to pare back a big long-term supply contract with one of its key lease-fleet customers, General Electric Railcar Services.

The United Transportation Union is asking President Obama to elevate Francis P. Mulvey to be chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates railroads, Washington sources said.

BNSF Railway says the economic development work it did last year, to build up businesses that could feed into its rail network, helped generate about $4 billion worth of investments and over 4,000 new

Traffic from short line railroads is running dramatically behind last year’s pace in the RMI RailConnect index.

Union Pacific Railroad is asking federal regulators to help it fend off certain new long-haul chlorine shipment requests, in cases where receiving customers could get the supplies delivered by pipelin

Kansas City Southern named Mary Stadler senior vice president and chief accounting officer. Stadler will report to KCS executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael W. Upchurch.

Trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, is declining rapidly as the recession deepens.

BNSF Railway shed rail 140 more of its rail network employees, putting 2 percent of its mechanical workforce on the types of indefinite layoffs that railroads call furloughs.

Residents of American cities can breath easier, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The atmosphere surrounding the trucking and railroad debate over truck size and weight limits is more frigid than ever, and shippers claim they’re stuck in the middle.

When the Surface Transportation Board hit BNSF Railway with its largest-ever penalty for overcharging a utility customer, the smackdown could be heard all across the country.

Trinity Industries, the largest North American bui

Officials from Class I and short line railroads ar

Montana says it plans to work at the federal level

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

Nebraska's Supreme Court dealt a setback to BNSF R

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

Pacer International appointed Robert J. Grassi to the board of directors effective March 1.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama invoked one of the most dramatic rail construction efforts in U.S.

"The bottom continues to be pushed out," said transportation equipment forecaster FTR Associates as it cut its outlook for North American railcar deliveries in 2009.