North-American rail

A new agreement between Norfolk Southern Railway and the Illinois Department of Transportation will allow work to start on a Chicago rail project at what industry officials call one of the nation&rsqu

Activity in the industrial real estate sector is building after being in the doldrums for more than two years.

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Environmental advocates this week served the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads notice to implement pollution-reduction measures within 90 days at their yards throughout California or they will be sued

When Warren Buffett announced late in 2009 his Berkshire Hathaway investment firm would buy up BNSF Railway, he said he’d always wanted to own a railroad.

A tough weather year that started with blizzards is only getting worse for major North American railroads and their customers, as Missouri River flooding that only looks to spread shuts off Midwestern

Even before Berkshire Hathaway offered in November 2009 to buy the 77.4 percent of BNSF Railway the investment giant didn’t own, speculation at times centered on how long the railroad’s to

Warren Buffett’s purchase of BNSF triggered a regulatory rate battle that could set a precedent for future railroad mergers or acquisitions.

Major North American railroads, shaking off the doldrums that slowed freight traffic during the spring, had their largest intermodal volume this year during the week ending June 11.

Despite a slowed freight sector and a weakened economy this spring, the largest freight railroads added 745 workers to their U.S.

Canadian National Railway will sell “substantially all of the assets” of Illinois Central RailMarine Terminal near New Orleans to Raven Energy.

CSX Transportation believes its new Northwest Ohio hub will give it a new edge over over-the-road trucking by lowering the cost of transportation for shippers moving goods into the Midwest.

The flooding Missouri River is cutting off rail lines, yards and shippers for several major North American carriers, and the range of outages will expand in the next week.

Shipment volume for small railroads grew 10 percent in the week ending June 4 from the same week last year, the strongest gain in more than a month and a sign the bulk freight industry appears to be s

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Coal and coke mining firm Oxbow Mining is suing the two largest U.S.

Rising floodwaters on the Missouri River have begun disrupting some rail operations, just the latest in a series of weather problems for U.S. railroads in recent weeks.

North American owners of railcars parked 2,855 additional cars during May, expanding the fleet of idled units at a time when bulk rail freight shipments had weakened from earlier in the spring.

Eastern U.S. railroads CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway each planned to hold groundbreaking ceremonies Monday on separate intermodal hub construction projects.

A tentative contract between the United Transportation Union and major U.S.

Union Pacific Railroad will pay $25 million to settle a longstanding dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over lead cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Omaha, Neb.

The Association of American Railroads will have a new person serving as its top lobbyist, as Laurie Knight will take the post of senior vice president of government affairs starting July 25, and repla

The Department of Transportation is working on changes in rail regulations that could save the industry more than $1 billion over the next two decades.

Intermodal rail traffic for U.S.

The seven largest railroads added 935 employees to their U.S. operations from mid-March to mid-April, for a new high since the recovery began in 2009.

Rail products supplier L.B. Foster is in the hunt for a new CEO, as Stan L. Hasselbusch said he will retire from that post effective Dec. 31.

CSX Transportation said it will invest an additional $160 million over the next several years to complete the National Gateway between the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, bringing the project to the full fu

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected BNSF Railway’s attempt to overturn a 2009 regulatory case decision that the railroad charged unreasonable rates on some coal shipments.

Carload traffic on North America’s largest railroads slipped 1 percent in the most recent week, extending a slide the rails have seen for the past month even as intermodal volume maintains stron

Railcar and barge manufacturer Greenbrier Companies named Mark Eitzen as vice president and general manager of its Gunderson factory in Portland, Ore., the company’s key freight car plant in Nor

Canadian National is spending nearly US$39 million to add tracks and make rail yard improvements on busy lanes in and east of Edmonton, Alberta, that handle rail traffic for Canada and the U.S.

April loadings of bulk commodities and other cargoes aboard large freight cars declined in April for major U.S. railroads, which could suggest some weakness in economic momentum.

North American railcars owners reduced their number of idled or stored units by 7,421 in April to 276,228, the lowest since cars in storage peaked at more than 500,000 in June and July 2009.

BNSF Railway posted a $607 million profit for the first quarter, up 20 percent from the same period in 2010 and reflecting a mix of higher freight traffic, fuel fees and pricing.

The Department of Homeland Security, acting on intelligence seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout, is warning states and other federal agencies al Qaeda has been considering terror plots aga

Union Pacific is boosting its common stock dividend by 25 percent to 47.5 cents per share, and adding $100 million to its railroad capital spending program this year for a $3.3 billion infrastructure

Illinois has been notified by the Department of Transportation that it will get another $186 million in rail grants, coming out of $2 billion the DOT is reallocating from funds Florida rejected for a

CSX Corp., the parent company of CSX Transportation, announced it will split its stock, raise the dividend and buy back $2 billion in common shares.

A Japanese manufacturer of large-scale power transformers will build a new factory at a Memphis, Tenn., site that will use Canadian National Railway tracks, access to Mississippi River barging and tru

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