Rail News

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

North America’s major freight railroads hauled 2.1 percent more intermodal traffic than a year earlier in the week ending Oct. 8, while bulk carload traffic grew 3.3 percent.

The Virginia Port Authority is expanding its market for discretionary container shipments into the Southeast and the Midwest through two new rail services.

North American intermodal traffic is hitting all-time weekly highs but the biggest railroads are raising caution flags about how the freight business will fare in coming months.

The rail peak season is under way for intermodal and some other cargoes, and the heads of major railroads have been preparing for months.

A recession forecast from the Economic Research Cycle Institute could point to a slump in rail freight volumes in coming months based on past correlations, says analyst Matthew Troy of Susquehanna Int

Logistics services company Transplace is expanding from its trucking base into intermodal rail by merging with intermodal marketer Celtic International.

DB Schenker said its new daily rail container service between Germany and China, starting in late November, will more than halve the transit time of sea transport.

With cargo volumes moving through the Alameda Corridor in Southern California still recovering from the 2008-09 recession, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been called upon to cover the co

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CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

BNSF Railway intermodal executive Fred Malesa does not believe West Coast ports will lose much market share in the Asian trade when the

Truckload giant Schneider National is leveraging its intermodal capabilities and relationship with Canadian National to speed freight between the U.S. and Canada.

President Obama, moving to prevent a potential strike against major U.S.

With a mild 0.6 percent gain in the latest week, major North American railroads again set a new all-time high in intermodal loadings with 313,026 containers and trailers in the week ending Oct.

A broad-based pickup in bulk railcar shipments pushed freight carloads up 2.2 percent at major North American railroads in the week ending Oct.

The Canadian government said it will “vigorously defend” its trade policies and infrastructure investments against any of the findings of a Federal Maritime Commission study looking into t

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood cleared a $196.5 million grant for Michigan to spend on track upgrades, the first part of a nearly $350 million federal investment in a east-west track segment now

BNSF Railway says by the time it has finished with historic flooding along the Missouri River and elsewhere this year, it expects the tab to be “about $375 million.”

The Federal Maritime Commission, jumping into a dispute over the shift of imported containers from the United States to Canada, voted Wednesday to launch an inquiry over whether the U.S.

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China will need to import 2 million tons of U.S. corn by next year even though the country expects a record harvest this year, said the U.S. Grains Council.

Fesco, owner of Russia’s largest ocean carrier, boosted revenue by 27 percent in the first six months and forecast an even stronger second half performance.

A U.S.-Canada cross-border dispute simmering since last spring may be on the verge of boiling over.

At a time when the U.S. housing market is in its worst condition since home ownership began to boom after World War II, railroads are hauling more lumber in 2011 than they did last year.

Rail intermodal volume at North America’s major railroads reached the highest weekly level on record, after a 2.8 percent gain in the week ending Sept. 24.

Federal regulators are opening a public proceeding on whether the premium Berkshire Hathaway paid in 2010 to buy BNSF Railway should be deducted from the valuation base that shapes the carrier’s

The Department of Transportation’s finalization of a grant this week for rail work near Wilmington, Del., sets the state for improvements to freight and passenger train operations in that state

BNSF Railway’s proposed $500 million near-dock intermodal terminal in Los Angeles-Long Beach will take up up to 1.5 million trucks a year off congested roads and freeways, according to a environ

Amtrak, CSX Transportation and other freight railroads in New York state will benefit after state officials got clearance from the Department of Transportation to spend $149.3 million in federal grant

Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’s up to $525 million investment in a Southern Illinois mine being will generate shipments of 6 to 6.5 million tons annually

Intermodal traffic on major North American railroads hit its highest weekly volume so far this year in the week ending Sept.

The Port of Vancouver, Wash., can now tap into $15 million of intercity passenger rail funds to help build a new freight rail route to the dock area, after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood finalize

France’s state-owned SNCF Fret lost a major contract with a long standing customer to private operators, jeopardizing the rail cargo operator’s plans to end years of heavy losses and rebui

The stock prices of several major railroads and railcar suppliers tumbled substantially more than the overall market did on Wednesday, after two big coal producers announced plans to cut back.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. plans to ask the agency at its Oct.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released $82.7 million for track and signal improvements in New England, across a region where freight and passenger lines often share the same corridor.

The seven largest railroads added a combined 1,191 workers to their U.S.

There’s no sign in rail freight trends that the U.S. economy may be tumbling into another recession.

Railcar manufacturer Greenbrier and American Railcar Industries continue to see strong demand to build new units, in what they say is an equipment market cycle that should keep growing for several yea