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Pacer International announced that as of April 1 it began offering expanded intermodal services thro

Both carload and intermodal freight were down on U.S. railroads during March, but the month ended wi

Freight rail delays cost Amtrak $137 million in 2006, according to a report from the U.S. Department

Citing better tax rules under the new Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, Norfolk Southern Railway said i

Union Pacific on Friday announced an agreement to transfer its BulkTainer intermodal service to Chem

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Surging intermodal exports at the big Southern California

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway''s plan to buy a short line tha

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The American Chemistry Council sums up its economic outlo

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Don M. Hahs was removed as national president of the Brot

Canadian National Railway is facing opposition to its plan to buy a short line that would circumvent

Short line traffic was down 0.9 percent in the week ending March 15, according to the latest RMI Rai

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads dropped significantly during the week ending March 22, partly due

Leading grain and ethanol shipper Archer Daniels Midland sued the top five U.S. railroads over how t

The Teamsters removed Don M. Hahs as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center, a facility that tr

A freight train derailed Sunday morning in a switching yard on the South Side of Chicago, causing a

Trespassers account for the largest number of fatalities in the railroad industry - approximately 50

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.After dodging plenty of blows from a hedge fund i

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board is abandoning a yearlong

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing tighter d

Surging intermodal exports at the big Southern California ports are not enough to make up for lost i

Rail traffic edged up in the 11th week of the year. Estimated ton-miles for all U.S railroads gained

Members of the United Transportation Union ratified an agreement renewing for the first time an hour

CSX raised the earnings outlook for its Eastern-U.S. railroad, both for the near and longer term, to

Canadian National Railway plans to spend more than $1.5 billion on its system this year, not countin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Kansas City Southern Railway has restructured its three t

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.As the nation''s freight outlook turns more cloudy, railr

If there was any doubt whether CSX thought hedge fund TCI was mounting a serious challenge to how it

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Mayo Clinic, a significant opponent of past plans to expa

CSX said it took two activist hedge funds to court, suing them ahead of a shareholders meeting where

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday assigned its lowest investment grade rating, 'BBB

The CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center, a facility that transfers intermodal boxes between truck and

In the first week of March, Freight traffic on U.S. railroads fell much further than the average for

The Surface Transportation Board abandoned a yearlong effort to pin down when so-called hybrid prici

After declaring the economic stimulus package signed by President Bush "a woefully inadequate plan"

A request by the Entergy Arkansas utility to build a new 40-mile short line pits a major power produ

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Invoking the potential threat of a terrorist attack using

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway is trying to head off charges by

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A request by the Entergy Arkansas utility to build a new

Kansas City Southern Railway has restructured its three transportation operating divisions and the t