Rail News

Kansas City Southern appointed Michael W. Upchurch as senior vice president for financial management

U.S. rail volume was down 0.7 percent in week 9, but Canadian railroads saw a 4.2 percent increase.

The RailConnect short line traffic index showed small railroads increasing their volume by 1.85 perc

The Association of American Railroads appointed John T. Gray as vice president of policy and economi

The number of train accidents in the United States declined for the third consecutive year, accordin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Days after CSX Transportation gave dissident shareholder

Norfolk Southern on Monday opened the Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal near Columbus, Ohio.

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Wabtec, a maker of locomotive brakes plus other products

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The solid earnings of two important companies in the rail

Kansas City Southern appointed Brian H. Bowers senior vice president intermodal and automotive.

Sharp gains in loadings of the leading commodities pulled overall rail freight to a 2.1 percent gain

Charles W. Moorman, Norfolk Southern Railway's chairman, president and CEO, predicted that overall f

Union Pacific received a subpoena seeking documents pertaining to the company's fuel surcharge progr

Kansas City Southern's current directors unanimously elected Henry R. Davis of Mexico City to the co

The head of the Association of American Railroads called on chemical companies Tuesday to stop manuf

TrentonWorks, a non-operating subsidiary of the Greenbrier Companies, applied to the Supreme Court o

Norfolk Southern elected Karen N. Horn to the company's board of directors. Horn, a partner

TTX, a railcar pool owned by North America's major railroads, added a new owner, Ferrocarril Mexican

Coal stocks in the nation's electric power sector reached an all-time high as the winter months appr

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.North American railroads looking for something to jump-st

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.CSX Transportation and activist hedge fund TCI are tradin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.While railroads may indeed face heavy storms each winter,

While railroads may indeed face heavy storms each winter, the winter of 2007-08 is already turning o

Shifting transportation patterns in the U.S. trade with Asia bode ill for intermodal shipments from

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A pair of intermodal partners locked in their relationshi

Record sales in the fourth quarter led to a solid increase in profits for rail industry equipment an

Global rail technology provider Wabtec agreed last week to pay $677,000 in fines and penalties in a

Trinity Industries hit records in revenue and net income in the fourth quarter. Combined rev

Grain shipments led widespread gains in commodities during a much improved week 7 for rail freight t

American Railcar walked away from the competition in the fourth quarter, boosting earnings by changi

Kansas City Southern plans to spend approximately $565 million on capital improvements in 2008, the

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A story in Traffic World, Feb. 11, 2008 on capital spendi

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The past year ended with another tough quarter for interm

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The federal Surface Transportation Board is launching two

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A new partnership between intermodal truck line Schneider

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The second year of the rail freight slump could bring a r

Canadian Pacific Railway on Thursday announced that 4,500 locomotive engineers and conductors repres

Eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation and activist hedge fund TCI are trading shots in the run-up

U.S. railroads carried total freight volume of 32.7 billion ton-miles in the week ending Feb. 9, up

RoadLink purchased Seattle-based intermodal trucking service provider West Coast Trucking.