North-American rail

Rail service has slipped because of bad weather and cost-cutting that have left railroads without enough train crews to operate trains or switch railcars frequently, shippers told an investment bank c

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union vowed to maintain its pickets at a newly built grain terminal in Longview, Wash., despite a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tac

BNSF Railway Chairman and CEO Matt Rose believes the best way to get U.S.

Class 8 truck orders rebounded in August, despite dire predictions for the U.S. economy, according to preliminary figures from two research groups.

The freight rail industry is fighting a regulation that allows the federal government to fine Class I carriers if Amtrak-provided data shows the railroads caused delays in passenger service.

The Department of Transportation is finally prepared to release $34 million in grant funds it announced last October, so that freight rail giants BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad can proceed on

Short line and regional railroads saw total shipments rise 3.4 percent in the final week of August, with gains across various cargoes linked to industrial demand.

Major North American railroads saw their carloadings of automobiles and other large equipment rise 5.3 percent last week, to the strongest weekly vehicle shipments since early last spring.

APL Logistics said it is outperforming the U.S. intermodal market since its reentry into the business last year after a decade-long absence.

CSX will spend $59 million to expand its intermodal terminal in Columbus, Ohio, leveraging its new terminal to the north and part of its $850 million initiative to better connect East Coast ports with

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

BSNF Railway will reopen an important flooded out track segment across the Missouri River on Sept. 3, five days earlier than planned.

Bulk carload traffic at major North American railroads rose 2.8 percent in week ending Aug. 20 from a week earlier, setting a new volume peak for 2011.

Major railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico picked up 1.3 percent more intermodal containers and trailers last week than the week previous, for their second-highest total of 2011.

The grain crop marketing year that ended July 31 was one of the strongest on record for Canadian National Railway’s export volume to the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

Four small railroads and seven Class I carriers received $7.7 million in security grants from the Department of Homeland, a $6.8 million decrease from the

Freight railroads will have to deploy expensive automation systems on far less track than earlier proposed under a new version of a positive train control requirement issued Tuesday by the Department

Amtrak and the Department of Transportation finalized agreements to spend $745 million to improve on-time passenger rail performance on the Northeast Corridor, a busy track zone often shared with frei

Union Pacific on Friday settled a long-standing argument with Customs and Border Protection over more than $500 million in fines for drug smuggling on its trains coming from Mexico by agreeing to spen

Short line railroads across North America saw shipments rise 3.8 percent in the second week of August from the first, another sign that basic freight demand continues to rise despite financial market

llinois is home to the largest number of railroad suppliers in the United States, according to data released by the Railway Supply Institute.

North American railroads were outpacing 2010 intermodal volume through mid-August, as increases in container loadings more than offset a slowdown in trailer hauls and boosted prospects for improved pe

Major freight railroads trimmed 424 jobs from mid-June to mid-July, the second overall cutback in the Class I workforce this year.

Swift Transportation, the largest U.S. truckload carrier, is expanding its container business with a cross-border intermodal service linking the U.S. and Mexico.

Canada National and Canadian Pacific railways’ new and expanded transload centers for stuffing lumber, logs and other products into containers bound for Asia will help the ports at Vancouver and

Ryder System says it plans to take more of the shipments it sends to trucks under the company's outsourced logistics operations and divert them to intermodal freight rail.

The head of heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar said his company is still hiring in August as demand continues to grow for its product line, although he worries about the economic outlook.

Shippers shifted freight from all-truck modes to intermodal at the fastest pace in years during the second quarter, according to a closely watched survey by the Wolfe Trahan research group.

Weaker coal traffic pushed rail carloadings down 6.8 percent in July at short line operator RailAmerica compared to the same month a year ago.

Canadian National Railway and China’s CNBM Forest Products Trading agreed to use a new CN facility in Vancouver, B.C., to transload Canadian lumber into China-bound containers starting this fall

Construction is under way on a major intermodal yard and locomotive refueling complex for Union Pacific Railroad at Santa Teresa, N.M., just inside the state border west of El Paso, Texas.

Midwest Railcar announced plans to expand its fleet by 2,400 cars, both new and used, by the end of 2012.

North American rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers rose 6.5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, as domestic traffic gains outpaced those from marine boxes.

BNSF Railway is increasing its capital spending budget for 2011 by $300 million to $3.8 billion, as it repairs and improves its network damaged by Midwest floods and captures economic incentives.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 14.4 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier to $690 million, as traffic grew only about 3 percent but per-unit receipts swelled 10.6 percent.

Transportation stocks took a deep dive on Wall Street on Monday, riding a huge selloff in response to the downgrading of U.S. debt that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 635 points.

North American owners of railcars parked 707 more of them in July, as many categories of freight rail traffic slowed from June levels for most of the month and as flooding continued to hamper Midwest

NuStar Logistics and EOG Resources, an oil and gas company, jointly develop and own a facility at St.

North American rail shipments of intermodal containers and trailers threw off a slowdown in the final week of July, rising 3.4 percent to a new volume peak so far in 2011 of 301,393 units.

Freight traffic for most North American short lines increased 3.1 percent in the week ending July 30 from a week earlier, as intermodal and lumber loadings set new 2011 highs.