Rail News

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.FreightCar America, the top builder of aluminum railcars

CN on Friday halted freight operations and embargoed all traffic on its Toronto-Montreal main line a

One way to beat transportation costs is to own the rail line yourself. That's what Garick, a nationw

Kansas City Southern appointed Thomas J. Naso assistant vice president marketing for the intermodal

Trinity Industries purchased 20 percent of the equity in a newly-formed railcar leasing and manageme

Volume on U.S. railroads in week 25 came in dead even with the comparable week a year earlier, when

Ventura Transfer Company added several new chassis and containers to their fleet in Phoenix, Arizona

New York Container Terminal announced Friday that CSX Transportation will begin intermodal rail serv

FreightCar America, the top builder of aluminum railcars and coal-hauling cars in North America, iss

Genesee & Wyoming's Mexican subsidiary Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab on Monday notified the Mexica

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The largest coal-hauling and intermodal railroad in North

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is still seeki

The National Labor Relations Board last week certified election results making a Teamsters local uni

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Greenbrier usually builds new railcars, but may have foun

Canadian National Railway announced Thursday that it plans to acquire 65 new fuel-efficient, high-ho

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads declined slightly in the week ending June 16, according to numbers

A key Teamster union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said its members voted 2

The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad has made no secret that it needs private capital to build

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Rail investments have been a hot target for private equit

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.It isn''t just the U.S. government looking to make the ra

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Whoever said "the customer is always right" clearly didn'

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Hub Group has shown it can sharply boost earnings in a fl

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When coal customers have problems with rail service under

Swedish freight company Green Cargo awarded a major modernization contract to Bombardier Transportat

The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad has made no secret that it needs private capital to build

The decline in U.S. rail freight traffic accelerated at the start of June as carload traffic fell 5.

Genesee & Wyoming, operator of short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, C

Pacer Distribution Services, the warehousing and distribution arm of Pacer International, opened a 5

Norfolk Southern celebrated its 25th anniversary and honored former chairman Arnold B. McKinnon by n

The Greenbrier Companies received orders from two customers to cut down a total of 2,500 existing 48

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Rail carload and intermodal shipments continued to slip i

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canada''s second-largest railroad, Canadian Pacific, and

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.In a year when major U.S. railroads have seen their vehic

Rail intermodal is catching it from all sides. The sector faces tough price competition from truckin

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian railroads dealing with restive labor unions may

The United Transportation Union and Sheet Metal Workers International Association agreed to form a n

Cargo theft is a multibillion-dollar extravaganza that's coming to a theater near you.It beg

SAN FRANCISCO -- Agricultural exporters in the United States are losing market share due to rail equ

Canadian National Railway warned that flooding was expected to disrupt trains moving to and from the

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was down even more sharply during May than in the previous four mo