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Kansas City Southern started receiving the first of 27 yard locomotives and road switcher units that have gone through a re-power upgrade that cuts fuel use and emissions.

CSX is committing to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 8 percent by 2011 under a voluntary federal environmental program, the railroad said Monday.

Class I railroad operations in the U.S. shed an additional 2,727 employees from mid-April to mid-May, putting rail employment at the major lines down to the lowest level in this decade.

When you look for green shoots, think scrap.

Canadian National Railway told regulators it made more progress last month in trimming the number of street-clogging train incidents on the Chicago-area short line tracks it recently acquired.

Federal officials are investigating the derailment of 18 tanker cars of a Canadian National Railway train that ran off the tracks and exploded near Rockford, Ill., killing a woman at a crossing.

Intermodal movements were a drag on rail freight traffic in the week ending June 13.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.

The solution to freight corridor congestion may be through reducing commuter congestion, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

It may no longer be the worst of times in rail freight traffic, but it’s still close. U.S.

A key government measure of U.S. freight shipping fell to its lowest level in seven years in April, the government reported.

A Norfolk Southern Railway executive said his company is exploring the potential to eventually electrify some freight rail lines in connection with passenger rail corridors, but the chief executive of

As Union Pacific Railroad feels out today’s freight market and plans for when it might pull out of its downturn, Chairman, President and CEO James R. Young is cautious.

With a key holiday falling on what is usually the first business day of the week, major U.S. railroads posted their worst volume numbers of 2009 in the week ending May 30.

The Illinois state senate is now on record, formally asking President Obama to soon fill an empty board seat on the Surface Transportation Board with an experienced transportation hand who would also

BNSF Railway is touting recent gains for its intermodal service expansions in the wake of Hub Group’s decision to switch most traffic to rival Union Pacific Railroad, and a spokesman said BNSF d

Intermodal shipper Hub Group will start shifting 8,400 domestic containers next week away from BNSF Railway and into the hands of rival Union Pacific Railroad, partly drawn by UP’s service of pr

Intermodal middleman firm Hub Group, one of the industry leaders, will shift the majority of its western-U.S.

Economic recovery will occur when consumer spending turns around, unemployment bottoms out and the business inventory-to-sales ratio improves, but that will take awhile, according to the chief economi

If there is good news for rail labor in the latest report on job cuts, it’s that the decline of freight railroad employment slowed from mid-March to mid-April.

FTR Associates is forecasting the economy will stabilize in the third quarter, followed by a moderate recovery in 2010 with GDP growth estimated to rise 2.7 percent, data the firm says suggests the wo

If this is the bottom, U.S. railroads are dragging along it with only a small hint at climbing out of the hole.

CN reached settlements on all outstanding charges related to derailments that occurred at Wabamun, Alta. on Aug. 3, 2005 and at Cheakamus, B.C. on Aug. 5, 2005.

In June, BNSF Railway will begin the first of five maintenance-of-way projects in South Dakota.

Despite some lift from intermodal volume, major U.S. railroads by two important measures had their worst week so far this year.

The Obama administration does not favor raising the federal tax on motor vehicle fuels as a way to bolster highway spending accounts, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

The Greenbrier, a West Virginia resort hotel that until May 6 was a money-losing drag on CSX Corp.’s railroad focus, is now cleared by a bankruptcy court for its new owners to try to revive it a

Representatives of Canadian National Railway, CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Railway say they expect agricultural products to be the first to bounce back after the recession.

June could be a key time for Congress to act on rail antitrust legislation and perhaps on changes in how economic regulations enforce competition among carriers, said a top official for an activist ra

Please step away from the antitrust bill, the Association of American Railroads is urging Congress, as the nation’s top freight rail lobbying group calls for a national rail policy review rather

BNSF Railway is putting 25 new-generation locomotives to work in its fleet, using a fresh model from GE Transportation that aims for a type of medium-duty power market in linehaul train moves.

Arnold B. McKinnon, Norfolk Southern’s second chairman, died May 18 in Washington D.C. He was 81.

A bill to strip railroads of a limited antitrust immunity could move to the Senate floor for a vote soon after Congress returns from its upcoming Memorial Day recess.

A bipartisan resolution in the Illinois state senate is pivoting off a controversial rail merger outside Chicago, as it asks President Obama to name a community-minded freight specialist to fill a fed

Against a backdrop of falling profits, plunging traffic and rising rail layoffs, Norfolk Southern Railway’s chairman, president and CEO tried to reassure shareholders at the company’s annu

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The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Canadian National Railway vowed to cut the number of long delays at road crossings caused by train operations over its newly acquired Chicago-area short line, and did just that.

GE Transportation plans to build a $100 million factory to make high-power batteries that it says are a key to putting hybrid-drive power systems into heavy freight locomotives, harbor tug boats and m

CSX Transportation and a major chemical shipper that has led the charge against rail rate increases, E.I.