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Railroad operator CSX moved closer to collecting $11 million from two hedge funds that successfully

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Kansas City Southern is pushing toward a new crossborder

Rapidly shrinking freight demand pushed railcar manufacturer Greenbrier into a loss of $3.3 million

Union Pacific will furlough approximately 230 people in North Platte, Neb. Workers got word

Major coal producer Peabody Energy is cutting its production targets for coal both in the United Sta

A sharp downturn in the final week, month and quarter brought an end to the worst year for U.S. rail

Effective Jan. 1, Donald C. Orris stepped down from his role as interim president, intermodal segmen

Two big rail freight shippers, aluminum maker Alcoa and Dow Chemical, unveiled new cuts or said they

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The economy is starting to hit railroads and intermodal m

Supply chain technology firm CaseStack named industry veteran Frank R. Kline to its board of directo

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Even as rail freight traffic is shrinking at ever-increas

CSX, best known for running one of the two largest freight railroads in the eastern United Sta

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is back before

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The worst thing about the negative rail freight numbers b

Conceding that its current system for computing railroad costs may be obscuring how much carriers ac

Kansas City Southern filed an application Dec. 30 at the State Department for a presidential permit

Greg Stefflre, the CEO of intermodal trucking firm Rail Delivery Services, was elected 2009 chairman

Kent P. Shoemaker, 74, died on Dec. 21 of Parkinson's disease at the Breck Homes, Bloomington, Minn.

Train robbers attacked a freight train operated by Kansas City Southern in Mexico. According

Canadian National Railway can go ahead and finish its purchase of the Chicago-area short line Elgin

The bottom fell out of U.S. rail freight volume in the week ending Dec. 20. Lack of a Christmas peak

Today CSX Intermodal announced that it is further expanding its services in Florida with a wider arr

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Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Freight railroads, intermodal companies and shippers that

The rules took nearly a decade to develop, but the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has f

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.-- Economic uncertainty and still-forming federal stimulu

The good thing about hitting bottom: There's nowhere to go but up. Some rail experts think that migh

Those two hedge funds that successfully fought to install four dissidents on the board that oversees

James Brunkenhoefer, the longtime top national legislative director for the railroad conductors' Uni

In what appears to be a move to cut costs and streamline command, Kansas City Southern will shift tw

Canadian National Railway ordered 40 new high-horsepower locomotives for delivery from Electro-Motiv

The Port of Vancouver will purchase 17 acres of railroad land from BNSF as part of a major rail expa

CN reached a mitigation agreement with the ninth community along the path of the Elgin, Joliet &

Rail freight traffic plunged in the week ending Dec. 6, according to numbers released Thursday by th

Major U.S. freight railroads installed A. Kenneth Gradia as chairman of the National Railway Labor C

Leading intermodal marketer Hub Group cut its earnings projections, saying that both its "intermodal

Two freight trains operated by Canadian Pacific collided before dawn Wednesday. Some of the derailed

Kansas City Southern upped its new five-year debt offering to $190 million from an initially announc

CN reached voluntary mitigation agreements with the communities of Frankfort and Hoffman Estates, Il

The State of Indiana is well-positioned to take advantage of intermodal rail development opportuniti