Rail News

DELAWARE AUTHORITY APPROVES YARD PLANCAMDEN, N.J. - The board of the Delaware River Port Aut

For the week ended Nov. 11, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

William N. Deramus III, chairman of Kansas City Southern Industries Inc., died Wednesday at age 73.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has decided to hold a confirmation hearing

A House subcommittee has approved legislation to regulate the use of railroad cars, trucks and other

International trade and transportation in the 1990s will face a streamlined and more efficient Europ

The nation's first luxury passenger train in decades rolled into town three minutes late, but its ow

TRANSPORTATION TABLE TO DEBATE FUEL TAXESThe Transportation Table will hear on Friday both s

It took two tries, but a 104-ton steam locomotive built in China and destined for Iowa was hoisted o

Britain's businessmen are calling for a doubling of investment in the country's transport infrastruc

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open a new and larger lock system on the mid-Mississippi

Seven days a week, 16 hours a day, the orange locomotives of a railroad you've probably never heard

A RAILROAD INDUSTRY POSITION already is becoming clear even though the legislative fight over the fe

ICC REJECTS BN BID TO DELAY UTILITY'S CASEThe Interstate Commerce Commission has rejected a

For the week ended Nov. 4, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 12

Depressed railway traffic, weak markets for newsprint and the higher value of the Canadian dollar we

CSX CORP. COMPLETES REPURCHASE PROGRAMRICHMOND, Va. - CSX Corp. has completed the share repu

CSX TRANSPORTATION INC. (Baltimore) - Ralph L. Felter was named assistant vice president, automotiv

Barges, loaded with a bountiful grain harvest, are backed up on the mid- Mississippi River this week

Production of new railroad cars is surging after nearly a decade of depressed sales, an official for

The White House has informed the Senate that President Bush has chosen Federal Maritime Commissioner

SP FINALLY ACHIEVES ACCESS TO CHICAGOThe Southern Pacific railroad system will finally make

House Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell, D-Mich., saidfaulty federal oversight of hazardou

Rail carloadings fell 2.5 percent in October from the year-earlier month. It was the fourth

One of the railroad industry's star witnesses in its drive to get Congress to scrap the compensation

Federal transportation officials are doing a poor job of protecting the public against possible haza

Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. opened its second intermodal terminal here last week, ful

Britain's express parcel delivery companies are seriously concerned the announcement Friday of a yea

MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE, please? The Kabuki dance between rail labor and management goes on. L

Last-minute negotiations averted a shutdown of bankrupt Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway Co. an

For the week ended Oct. 28, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

CSX TRANSPORTATION INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Edward H. Latchford has been named vice president-fin

The board of British Rail is expected to announce today it is delaying for a year a decision on buil

Members of the House of Representatives took their first look in 50 years at the Federal Employers'

Prospects seem to be brightening for a proposed New England double-stack train operation to serve sm

MATTHEWS TO DISCUSS RAILCAR BUILDING BOOMRobert A. Matthews, president of the Railway Progre

There is "a lot" that's right with the Interstate Commerce Commission, according to Commissioner Pau

Six small railroads are urging the Interstate Commerce Commission to rule railroads must continue to

High barge freight rates are causing some grain shipments to be shifted from barge to rail, but the

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide if the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp., which operates comm