North-American rail

West Coast port directors and executives from the two Class I western railroads meeting in China cited their region's deep-water ports and extensive ocean and intermodal rail services as reasons why t

The rail reform bill being prepared for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, said a key Republican senator.

The planned purchased of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not trigger a special compensation package for the railroad’s CEO, who plans to stay aboard and has offici

Before it completes its deal to buy out the rest of BNSF Railway, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will divest its shares of Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway.

The first two of GE Transportation’s PowerHaul locomotives have arrived in the United Kingdom for the Freightliner Group freight rail line, marking GE’s first entry to European markets wit

Asking for changes to the controversial approval of a key rail merger, Chicago suburbs and the Illinois Department of Transportation managed to get a split decision out of the Surface Transportation B

The head of BNSF Railway said he has shopped the planned acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway among U.S. policymakers in Washington, D.C., and gotten a favorable response.

Days after its deal to become a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company, BNSF Railway said it forged a tentative multi-year labor contract agreement with its train engineers.

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New loadings of bulk railcar traffic declined mildly in the final week of October at major U.S.

Credit risk evaluator Fitch Ratings warned it may cut Berkshire Hathaway’s debt ratings over its $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway.

A purchase of U.S. freight rail giant BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could lead Standard & Poor's Ratings Services to upgrade its assessment of BNSF debt.

Pacer International, seeking to settle a contracting issue central to the company’s intermodal business, announced Tuesday it reached a multi-year agreement with Union Pacific Railroad for new r

The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Berkshire Hathaway underscores the value of railroads generally, according to Wall Street analysts.

The Clorox Co. says it will stop using chlorine in its signature bleach product because of growing concerns over the safety and oversight of transporting the product on railroads.

Norfolk Southern Railway and Pennsylvania’s state government will spend $11 million to expand track and parking in the railroad’s Philadelphia Navy Yard intermodal facility.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced Tuesday it will buy the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad in a transaction worth an estimated $34 billion.

The prices of the kinds of commodities that manufacturers around the world use to make industrial products hit a record high in the week at the end of October, according to the Industrial price Index

Shippers in the National Industrial Transportation League are firm in wanting an expected rail regulatory reform bill to strip railroads of a limited exemption they enjoy from antitrust laws, said NIT

The chairman of the Surface Transportation Board is filling his remaining top staff job with a lawyer who has represented industrial firms before regulatory agencies, giving him a pair of senior aides

Traffic edged higher for major U.S. railroads in the week ending Oct. 24, as both carloads and intermodal pickups rose from a week earlier, said the Association of American Railroads.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the seven Class I railroads, saw net income fall 47 percent from a year earlier to $25.8 million in the third quarter.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s third-quarter profit fell 41.7 percent from a year earlier to $303 million, as rail revenue fell 28.7 percent to $2.063 billion.

Canadian Pacific Railway’s profit of $183 million in the third quarter increased 14 percent from $161 million in 2008.

Canadian National Railway will have to expand its monthly reporting to regulators about its newly acquired short line outside Chicago, as the Surface Transportation Board said the reports must include

An activist rail shippers’ lobbying group pushed back hard against an industry proposal for Congress to make only limited change in laws governing rail competition.

An advisory panel of railroads and freight shippers that meets regularly with the Surface Transportation Board is urging Congress to adopt cargo switching rules favored by shipper groups, but it bogge

BNSF Railway’s profit of $488 million in the recession-struck third quarter was down 29.8 percent from a year earlier, as revenue fell 26.7 percent to $3.49 billion.

Major U.S. railroads continued to load their trains last week at a pace close to recent levels, in keeping with a freight recovery that is now moving in a narrow volume range.

Union Pacific Railroad generated a profit of $517 million in the third quarter, down 26 percent from a year earlier as revenue fell 25 percent to $3.47 billion.

Intermodal marketing company Hub Group reported a $9.8 million profit in the third quarter, down 42 percent from a year earlier as revenue of $389 million fell 24 percent.

Jobs at major U.S. railroads got scarcer from mid-August to mid-September than at any other point in the recession so far.

Canadian National Railway is ordering 70 new high-horsepower locomotives, splitting them evenly between suppliers GE Transportation and Electro-Motive Diesel.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a case that should clarify what laws apply when international shipments are damaged in transit within the United States.

Canadian National Railway’s net income slid 16.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $439 million, on an 18 percent drop in revenue to $1.758 billion.

Canadian National Railway said its trains blocked roadway crossings eight times during September when trains stopped for 10 minutes or more along the suburban Chicago rail line it recently acquired.

New intermodal loadings spiked at major U.S. railroads last week to their peak level so far this year, but carloads of bulk materials and heavy machinery or equipment slumped.

A well-known rail and intermodal analyst, Ed Wolfe of Wolfe Research, is projecting that Pacer International could end up renegotiating its cut-rate contract with Union Pacific Railroad by getting out

Surface transportation should show modest growth through 2010 and then take off strongly in 2011 with double-digit growth in volume, a Schneider Logistics executive said Tuesday.

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