Rail News

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are fine-tuning their track maintenance plans after two coal

Norfolk Southern is getting out of rail trailer management, but a recent purchase by one of its subs

Duke Power last week said it reached a settlement with CSX Transportation to resolve a 2001 railroad

Railroads will have to "harden" their trains' event recorders and collect more operating data from l

Federal lawmakers are turning up the heat on rail carriers, shippers and the Department of Homeland

The Federal Railroad Administration granted $6.4 million to a research group that plans to field tes

The first so-called "small-case" rate complaint was resolved in a little over a month after it was f

The Federal Railroad Administration approved new intermodal technology that links containers and the

Hub Group's dismal financial track record of late isn't an indication of the 3PL's ability to take a

Lawmakers not only want to keep hazardous materials away from high-profile cities, they also want to

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober asked as of June 16 the seven largest railroads an

Norfolk Southern hopes making it easier for local train operators to recognize the benefits of match

SAN FRANCISCO -- BNSF Railway has geared up for another year of double-digit growth in intermodal tr

Minnesota lawmakers are pushing legislation that would relax truck weight limits to provide transpor

A government report concluded that while market forces helped the rail industry avoid a peak season

U.S. railroads continued to increase traffic during the week ending June 4 despite a day off for Mem

The National Industrial Transportation League's decision to remain neutral on rail competition legis

House and Senate negotiators began meeting last week to play the last inning of the latest transport

Poor track caused one of Union Pacific Railroad's derailments last year, the National Transportation

Railcar builder Trinity Industries on Thursday hiked its second quarter and full-year profit outlook

FreightCar America on Thursday officially opened a freight-car manufacturing facility in Roanoke, Va

Canada and the United States see the role of carriers differently when addressing capacity and compe

A short piece of track built to stage trains waiting to load bulk commodities onto ships at Canada's

PierPass is ditching a gradual rollout of its OffPeak congestion mitigation program and will instead

The Alaska Railroad will receive $24.8 million in grants from the Federal Railroad Administration fo

James R. Young is bucking tradition. The president and chief operating officer of Union Pacific Rail

Weekly rail traffic is growing again after two weeks of declining numbers as a result of derailments

The end of the Cold War wasn't good news for everyone. The demise of Communism in the Soviet Union p

The impact of the Surface Transportation Board's first "small-case" rate complaint may reach shipper

A key shipper group wants to stay out of the debate over legislation that rail shippers say is neede

Here are the top two ways that shippers can get on the good side of their rail carrier -- according

Two separate train derailments occurred over the weekend of May 14-15 in Converse County, Wyo., snar

Shippers claim a "trailer transition" plan BNSF Railway began enforcing May 18 will severely hinder

BNSF Railway wants the Surface Transportation Board to put a damper on shippers infuriated by its pl

In spite of a declining domestic market, a double digit increase in international transport boosted

Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ratified Wednesday a four-year collec

CSX is keeping its fingers crossed that it will be able to flush out congestion at one of its bigges

The billions of dollars in consumer goods flowing into the United States from overseas are likely to

Short line operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. is buying Rail Management Corp.'s 14 short line railr

The rail worker casualty rate dropped 9 percent in 2004, which was the safest year for rail workers