North-American rail

A push-pull this week over future rail legislation had state farm commissioners urging Congress to enact a law to force more shipper-oriented competition onto U.S.

Major U.S. freight railroads hit their highest load levels of 2010 in intermodal as well as bulk carload shipments during the week ending July 31, the Association of American Railroads said.

Intermodal and logistics services provider Pacer International posted a $1.4 million profit in the April-June period, up from a $7.3 million loss a year earlier, as its intermodal and logistics units

Washington’s Port of Grays Harbor is $4 million closer to its goal of more than $15 million for construction of additional rail storage tracks in the marine terminal complex.

Union Pacific Railroad moved its first revenue trains through the new Joliet Intermodal Terminal on Aug. 3, launching UP’s fifth major box-handling yard in the Chicago area.

Norfolk Southern Railway said its Maintenance of Way and Structures Department pushed through $21 million in track, signal and bridge work in seven days in southwestern Pennsylvania, closely timed to

Union Pacific Railroad is promoting Lance M. Fritz to executive vice president for operations as of Sept. 1, as Dennis J. Duffy plans to retire as vice chairman for operations.

A 3.8 percent increase in coal shipments from week to week pushed freight loadings for major North American railroads to their highest level in a month for the most recent week, but raw commodities fo

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway and logistics group, boosted first half profits by over 26 percent from a year ago driven by a 40 percent surge in rail freight volumes and significantly higher air a

Canadian Pacific Railway had a 23 percent rise in net income from the second quarter of 2009, to $162 million, while revenue grew 20 percent to about $1.2 billion.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s second quarter net profit surged 59 percent to $392 million, the railroad said, while revenue rose 31 percent from a year earlier to $2.43 billion.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, powered back from tough recession financials to post a $37.4 million profit for the second quarter that was up 527 percen

Kansas City Southern’s railroad in Mexico reopened its flood-damaged Anahuac Bridge over the Salado River in northern Mexico on July 24, and immediately began running trains again through the no

The Department of Transportation gave final approval to an innovative $300 million loan package to help Denver remake its Union Station passenger rail center into a light rail and bus hub.

A push by the Obama administration to get as much stimulus money out the door as possible is spawning projects tied to road, rail and sea.

Union Pacific Railroad turned in a second-quarter profit that was up 53 percent from a year earlier to $711 million, and was 17 percent of its $4.182 billion in receipts.

Illinois and Union Pacific Railroad have come to terms on enough of a planned passenger line in UP’s right of way so that an initial 90-mile track project can begin in September.

The seven largest freight railroads added 612 net workers to their U.S. operations from mid-May to mid-June, after making a small cut in May.

Rail freight shippers waiting for the flood-closed Kansas City Southern lines to reopen in northern Mexico got some welcome news as KCS said it could resume service this weekend over a key bridge and

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Employers at the Port of Montreal locked out the 850 members of the longshore union Monday morning, bringing cargo handling at terminals to a standstill.

Railroads serving the U.S.-Mexico border region are telling customers to expect two more weeks of shipment detours from the hurricane and flood disruptions to rail service through Laredo, Texas, and N

North American railcar leasing fleets, shippers and railroads pulled 3,064 cars out of storage during June but still had 23.7 percent of their freight hauling equipment sitting idle.

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Major eastern-U.S. railroad CSX posted a $414 million profit in the second quarter. That was up 36 percent from the 2009 period, while its $2.663 billion in revenue was up 22 percent.

Rail service between the U.S. and Mexico is resuming after closures because of flood damage caused by Hurricane Alex.

Rail shippers faced with growing ancillary and penalty charges levied by carriers received some relief in Canada from the federal government, which now requires that their complaints to the Canadian T

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

Norfolk Southern Railway’s long-awaited project to carve a double-stack intermodal train corridor through the Appalachian Mountains just got a bit longer, as the company got approval from Ohio t

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expects to quickly nail down some accords with Class I freight railroads, to spur intercity passenger rail development and begin using some of the billions in stimu

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In moves that reflect the improvement Kansas City Southern has been making in its finances, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its rating on long-term KCS debt to BB from B and took the rai

Five days after a 28-car derailment, CSX is prepared to reopen a rail line in Porter County, Ind., according to local news reports.

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta