Rail News

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

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec's fourth quarter profit rose 8 percent from a year earlier even though "demand softened dramatically in certain segments of the global freight rail market," its presiden

When it comes to taking it on the chin from the railroads over the fight for government funding, the trucking industry is apparently mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

The always competitive, sometimes cooperative relationship between railroads and trucking has been a hot topic for Traffic World since at least 1912.

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Across North America, railcar and intermodal container builders are slashing costs to guard their cash until orders begin to strengthen again.

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation resumed their train movements through New Orleans, which had been disrupted for weeks after a CSX bridge fire earlier this month.

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Federal regulators have invoked their powers to pre-empt local governments, to make sure trains keep running unimpeded, to back Norfolk Southern Railway in a challenge from a Washington, D.C., suburb.

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Railcar orders plummeted in the fourth quarter, cutting profit 43 percent for Trinity Industries at the end of a year with record revenue and a respectable full year net income.

U.S. rail traffic was much lighter than last year in the week ending Feb. 14 with steep declines in major commodities as well as intermodal units.

In a major decision with far-reaching implications, the Surface Transportation Board ordered BNSF Railway to pay an estimated $345 million in reparations and rate cuts to coal-burning utilities - its

BNSF Railway sharply criticized the Surface Transportation Board's decision to hit it with $345 million in forced rate cuts and reparation payments, over freight rates it has been charging to deliver

A shipper-backed proposal to increase truck productivity by lifting federal weight restrictions was opposed by railroad interests at a recent National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Washingto

Both Trinity Industries and Greenbrier Companies, the two largest builders of freight railcars in No

Construction of an intermodal on-dock rail terminal at the Port of Jacksonville has been delayed by

Major freight railroads are looking at the new economic stimulus bill as a way to fund track and bri

Union Pacific Corp. will likely raise freight rates 5-6 percent this year from 2008 even as the nati

Rail-hauled intermodal shipments of containers and trailers lost market share to all-highway truckin

Railcar building FreightCar America earned $8.3 million in the final 2008 quarter, up from a $16.7 m

Lower volume in the intermodal segment would have reduced Pacer's profit in the fourth quarter anywa

The Surface Transportation Board could soon see its top lineup change in a political environment tha

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Warren Buffett now controls more than 22.6 percent of BNS

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The view from America's loading docks, warehouse gates and rail yards is bleak, but some light is tr

Genesee & Wyoming improved earnings in the fourth quarter through acquisitions and the performan

The railroad with the straightest route down the continent and the one that has led in creating high

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway finally got a key piece of its

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The four largest U.S. railroads generated $7.5 billion in

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The four largest U.S. railroads generated $7.5 billion in net income, a 16 percent increase, despite

Charles D. Nottingham plans to stay on as one of three commissioners of the Surface Transportation B

U.S. rail traffic fell 17.3 percent in the fourth week of 2009. Carloads were off 18.4 percent while

Union Pacific Railroad agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Emplo

Warren Buffett now controls more than 22.6 percent of BNSF, parent of the largest railroad on the co

Short line operator Watco got an early start on its Grand Elk Railroad project in Michigan, after th

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top-tier group of North American railroad firms, saw its fourt

When intermodal business fell after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. railroads reacted

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Even as they roll in profits, North America's railroads a