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Short-line rail operator Genesee & Wyoming increased carloads 7.9 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter, although traffic in December was up only 0.6 percent compared with December 2010, th

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Norfolk Southern Railway is positioned to gain more than 150,000 carloads of annual business from nearly $9.5 billion in facility investment made by shippers, particularly coal customers, near the rai

An activist hedge fund investor said he will wage a proxy battle to replace the top leadership of Canadian Pacific Railway after the railroad's directors rejected his attempt to tap a former Canadian

CSX Transportation stands to gain more than $230 million in annual

Canadian Pacific Railway directors unanimously rejected the push by an activist hedge fund investor to replace the company’s CEO with the former chief of rival Canadian National Railway.

Coal exports may account for less than 10 percent of U.S. production, but strong demand from overseas buyers proved critical for domestic mining companies facing weak utility markets in 2011.

Economic growth was disappointing in 2011 and a strong rebound is unlikely in 2012, but North America’s railroads will continue to outperform the overall economy, especially in the intermodal se

A collision of three CSX Transportation trains caused a massive chemical fire and possible hazardous chemical spill Friday afternoon in northwest Indiana, according to published reports.

Three unions representing railroad workers this week ratified contracts with major U.S.

Rising rail freight and equipment demand sent revenue soaring at railcar and barge maker Greenbrier in the last quarter, strengthening the company’s profits.

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Short line and regional freight railroad holding company Patriot Rail Corp. has announced a restructuring of its operations management team, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Stifel Nicolaus downgraded the stock of Union Pacific from “buy” to “hold” Tuesday despite the investment research firm forecasting higher earnings for the rail giant.

GE Transportation acquired rail industry software developer RMI from The Carlyle Group, expanding its transportation software and optimization business.

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With freight rail efficiency pretty much at its limits in stacking containers vertically, railroads increasingly are looking for improvements in the other direction.

CSX Transportation said it will start on-dock rail service at the Virginia Port Authority's APM Terminal in Portsmouth on Jan. 3.

OOCL and Canadian National Railroad this became the first two carriers of their respective industries to share their manifest data directly with the Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Com

Canadian Pacific named veteran railroad executives Tony L. Ingram and Edmond L.

The Surface Transportation Board is launching a formal proceeding examining a dispute between the Union Pacific Railroad and chemical c

The Jacksonville Port Authority received $10 million of the $25 million in federal funding it requested to build an intermodal rail terminal.

Canadian Pacific Railway aims to be able to run 11 percent longer trains by 2013 through new and expanded siding in “several key regions.”

Two unions representing railroad workers have reached tentative agreement with major U.S. railroads, averting the immediate threat of a national labor action.

Shipper and transportation groups are increasing pressure on Congress to avert a potential national rail stoppage, as the deadline for striking an agreement with two unions nears amid the peak holiday

Shipper groups are pressing Congress to step in to avert a potential nationwide strike next week, with one warning the disruption of rail service “during the busy holiday shopping seas

An Arizona utility will get $63 million in reparations and rate reductions under a Surface Tr

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Intermodal container traffic increased 2.6 percent week-to-week and 6.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Nov.

Major U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 8.5 percent year-over-year to $766 million in the third quarter, as the railroad's revenue rose 13 percent despite traffic falling 1.9 percent.

The National Industrial Transportation League will keep pressing for changes to railroad switching rules it calls anti-competitive, despite the Surface Transportation Board’s deferral of a NITL

Short-line rail operator Genesee & Wyoming increased carloads 14.2 percent in October, largely because of acquisitions and higher mineral and stone shipments.

Union Pacific Railroad is pushing back the opening of its grain transloading facility at Yermo, Calif., to late 2011 or early 2012 amid a declining grain export market.

Intermodal container loads for U.S. railroads slowed down in the week ending Nov.

Just as it did this year, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority probably will need another shortfall payment from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach when a debt payment is due on Oct.

Mark Furman has a list of reasons why the market for building new railcars is strong despite continuing worries about where the economy is headed.

Domestic intermodal traffic spiked upward 6.3 percent in the third quarter, an industry group said

President Obama’s team trying to head off a nationwide rail strike or lockout offered new recommendations on contract terms, triggering a final 30-day countdown toward labor action on Dec.

North American owners of freight railcars trucked 1,378 more into storage lots and track sidings during October, as traffic slowed some from the peaks set in