North-American rail

Canadian National Railway plans to invest about $94 million to develop a logistics park northeast of Calgary, Alberta, and transfer into it most of the operations now at its southeast Calgary rail yar

Before a powerful series of winter storms began to strike early this month, major U.S. railroads enjoyed their strongest traffic in many weeks as January ended.

U.S. freight shippers sent their highest shares yet by intermodal combination moves in the 2009 fourth quarter, compared with using trucks only, said transportation consultants FTR Associates.

Three days after a massive winter storm struck the mid-Atlantic region, freight transportation systems were still trying to recover to normal operating levels.

Credit evaluator Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its long-term ratings on debt issued by BNSF Railway, and said after acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway the railroad should keep generatin

The Surface Transportation Board’s decision to order freight rate repayments by Union Pacific Railroad to U.S.

The Surface Transportation Board, in a split decision, ruled that Union Pacific Railroad charged “unreasonably high” rates to chlorine shipper U.S.

Net profit at Kansas City Southern dropped 63 percent to $69 million in 2009, as the company came through a business environment in the first five months that Chairman and CEO Michael R.

Canadian Pacific Railway improved its net profit in the fourth quarter by 3 percent year-over-year to $182 million with the help of some unusual tax benefits.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s fourth-quarter net income fell 32 percent from a year earlier to $307 million, as revenue fell 16 percent to $2.1 billion.

Eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation said customers last year “committed to 92 new or expanded facilities” along CSX tracks, which represent $3.2 billion in investments.

Canadian National Railway, bouyed by lower tax rates from Canadian provinces and receipts from selling some track to a transit agency, posted fourth-quarter net income of $548 million, up 1.6 percent

BNSF Railway implemented service improvements that cut scheduled trip times for 60 percent of its premium domestic intermodal traffic, saving shippers up to half a day on their long hauls, the company

Claude Mongeau, who took over this year as Canadian National Railway’s president and CEO, named his top operations and marketing executives as he builds out his leadership team.

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The National Transportation Safety Board wants the federal government to “require audio and image recorders in the cabs of all locomotives,” after determining that a commuter train operato

BNSF Railway plans to spend $2.4 billion in 2010 on capital improvements including track upgrades and freight cars, a drop of 10 percent from 2009 as it expects to make fewer purchases of locomotives.

BNSF Railway, in likely its last earnings report as a public company, saw it’s net profit fall 12.8 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, to $536 million, but the company showed str

New freight carload and intermodal pickups by major U.S. railroads rose in the week ending Jan. 16, but remained below their recent highs.

The largest U.S. freight railroad, Union Pacific, came out against the version of the rail regulatory bill that cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last month.

Western-U.S. carrier Union Pacific Railroad saw fourth-quarter profit fall 17 percent from a year earlier to $551 million, while net income for all of 2009 fell 19 percent to $1.9 billion.

President Obama is nominating Jeffrey R. Moreland, a former senior attorney with BNSF Railway and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, to join Amtrak’s board of directors.

With some Chicago suburbs still mounting legal challenges to the acquisition by Canadian National Railway of a short line railroad around the city, the Surface Transportation Board said it is now aski

CSX Corp., parent company of the nation’s largest eastern railroad, reported $2.32 billion in revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ending Dec.

A panel that brings together rail officials, some of their customers and government officials to help shape U.S.

The impact on rail operations from heavy winter storms across much of the U.S. Midwest and South last week curbed traffic at major U.S.

Union Pacific Railroad over the weekend tested an ultra-long 18,000-foot double-stack train on a run from Texas to Southern California, but the railroad apparently does not intend to run such long tra

While North American rail hauls of intermodal equipment fell 14.6 percent in 2009 to 11,670,350 units, largely due to a shrinking ocean container market, the biggest part of the domestic rail-truck bu

The two recession years of 2008 and most of 2009 left carloads of bulk materials and equipment at major U.S. railroads down 18.2 percent from 2007, said the Association of American Railroads.

A new federal rule issued Tuesday on automated train management systems allows railroads to wrap up their implementation plans in time for an April deadline, the Federal Railroad administration said.<

The 2009 plunge in bulk U.S.

The two big Canadian Class I railroads suffered a sharper decline in bulk carload traffic in 2009 than U.S.-based major lines, while their drop in intermodal matched the U.S.

Late-year gains in some commodity cargoes and in intermodal business were not enough to let large U.S. rail lines escape double-digit declines in both types of traffic.

Major U.S. railroads hauled fewer intermodal units in 2009 than any time since 2003, meaning the deep recession took six years of growth away from intermodal train traffic.

The ocean port at Everett, Wash., will build a rail spur to expand its freight train operations, largely paid with federal funds for disaster preparations.

The three-member Surface Transportation Board now has Francis P. Mulvey serving as its vice chairman, under an annual rotation. He replaces Charles D. Nottingham in that role.

Norfolk Southern Railway&rsquo;s large coal loading port terminal is back to normal at Norfolk, Va., and the railroad on Jan. 5 lifted its &ldquo;force majeure&rdquo; declaration on coal moves.

The Intermodal Association of North America has named industry leaders Stephen Branscum of BNSF Railway and David Howland of Schneider National as chairman and vice chairman for 2010.

Buffeted by a major winter storm that socked much of the Appalachian coal mining region in the week of Christmas, major U.S.

Chicago&rsquo;s multi-layered plan to revamp rail connections in the city and region just checked its $13.1 million McCook Connection off its list, improving links between several freight carriers and