North-American rail

Locomotive conductors for Canadian National Railway and other rail workers in Canada who are part of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference ratified four collective agreements that ended a tense set of

U.S. factory output rose 0.5 percent in October, led by increased output of autos, appliances and business equipment.

Major North American railroads in recent weeks saw a slowdown in their loadings of some cargoes important to the factory sector.

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas in the intermodal business.

In a sign of growing strength in rail freight demand, North American railcar leasing firms and other car owners pulled 12,799 more railcars out of storage in October, said the Association of American

BNSF Railway presented achievement awards to three shortline railroads at the annual Shortline conference in Grapevine, Texas.

Wisconsin’s Republican governor-elect, Scott Walker, campaigned and won on a pledge to kill a planned Madison-Milwaukee passenger rail line that drew a large federal grant.

Union Pacific Railroad tentatively plans to increase its capital spending on network repairs and growth projects 25 percent in 2011 to $3.25 billion, company officials said.

BNSF Railway's net income in the third quarter rose 44.7 percent from a year earlier to $706 million, as revenue rose 22.1 percent to $4.391 billion.

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

Union Pacific Railroad expects growing volume, higher rates and new pricing on expiring contracts with shippers to push annual revenue up 6 to 8 percent per year over the next five years, Chief Financ

Canadian National Railway and North America Stevedoring Company, a unit of Quebec Stevedoring, said they will soon build a multi-modal steel trans-loading facility in Chicago, to tap what is already t

BNSF Railway, splitting its CEO and president roles, promoted Carl Ice to president and chief operating office while keeping Matthew K. Rose in the chairman and CEO positions.

Parts of the U.S.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s profit surged 47 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $445 million, as revenue grew faster than expenses.

While a number of planned high-speed passenger rail corridors are still waiting for implementing contracts with freight railroads to use designated federal funds, Union Pacific Railroad CEO James R.

The largest freight railroads said they increased their U.S. employment by 1,386 workers from mid-August to mid-September, to the highest level since April 2009.

Canadian Pacific Railway saw net income fall 5.7 percent to about $191.5 million in the third quarter from a year earlier, but said freight operations are running strong and the 2009 profit had been s

CSX Transportation began using the first of two low-emission GenSet switcher locomotives at its Curtis Bay Yard in Baltimore.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I railroads with operations split between U.S.

The still strong domestic intermodal market has Union Pacific Railroad back in the market for new 53-foot, jumbo sized intermodal containers and chassis, on top of a larger order it placed earlier thi

Federal rail regulators set in motion a process that could end with their reclaiming oversight of railroads' freight service and rate levels on cargoes that are now exempt.

North American rail freight traffic rebounded in the week ending Oct. 16, a period that included the Oct. 11 holiday in the U.S. and Canada.

The 2010 intermodal peak season for western railroad Union Pacific looks like it could continue another two months, said CEO James R. Young.

Western U.S. carrier Union Pacific Railroad posted a 51 percent gain in net income in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $778 million, as revenue increases outpaced expenses.

Norfolk Southern broke ground for the Franklin County regional intermodal facility in Greencastle, Pa., which will form a key part of the Crescent Corridor route between the Gulf Coast and the U.S.

The Department of Transportation is “well-positioned” to complete contract talks to launch slow-moving plans for passenger rail construction projects, and none of the 13 targeted projects are in dange

September was the strongest month since springtime for North American railcar owners shrinking their lists of idle equipment as gains in both carload and intermodal traffic prompted operators to activ

CSX Transportation, the eastern U.S.

Strong loadings of truck trailers by North American railroads point to continued momentum in the overall intermodal market, which is dominated by stackable containers, says a report from BB&T Capital

Union Pacific Railroad and CenterPoint Properties on Oct. 18 will open the 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal southwest of Chicago.

North America’s major railroads hauled more motor vehicles and other types of large equipment in the last half of September than any other time this year, as volume keeps rising in a key cargo g

CSX Transportation and New York-New Jersey port officials say the opening of a section of track to trains carrying double-stacked, high-cube containers will increase the railroad's and port's reach in

Canadian National Railway said it is adding railcars and taking other steps to meet supply chain needs of steel producing customers in Canada, the second time in a week that CN has unveiled new effort

Canadian Pacific Railway and Teck Resources, its largest coal shipper, agreed to terms on a 10-year deal for CP to carry Teck’s metallurgical coal to export terminals.

Intermodal traffic continued nearly at its peak volume of 2010 in the latest week on North America's major freight railroads.

A long-running legal challenge to freight rail fuel surcharges by the largest U.S.

Canadian National Railway reached a tentative three-year agreement late Friday with the union representing 2,700 operating employees, averting a potential strike or lockout on Monday, just as the peak