North-American rail

Class I railroads as a group cut 1,678 jobs by mid-January from a month earlier, as the recession deepened and freight traffic remained sharply below year-earlier levels.

CSX Transportation is putting four new genset yard locomotives into its Barr rail yard in Riverdale near Chicago, doubling its fleet of the low-emission power units.

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia will add its inaugural call at the Port of Charleston to its North America service during the week of March 30, the South Carolina State Port Authority sa

Kansas City Southern is telling customers that security statistics for its rail operations in Mexico “show outstanding performance and continuous improvement.”

President Obama named Francis P.

The recession kept hitting every category of commodity and consumer goods carried on U.S. railroads in the first week of March.

Kansas City Southern Railway has joined the list of major railroads starting to incorporate the low-emission “genset” switcher locomotives to its fleet, as it refit two engines for its Por

Canadian National Railway is starting to move a few trains out of congested downtown Chicago tracks onto a short line route through area suburbs.

Federal regulators cleared the way for Norfolk Southern Railway and northeastern short lines operator Pan Am Railways to launch a New England joint venture railroad.

The U.S. rail economic regulator will consider Union Pacific Railroad’s effort to avoid taking on new long hauls of chlorine.

Nova Scotia decided against pursuing a major gateway project involving the Port of Halifax and Canadian National Railway because of high costs.

To the extent that weekly rail shipment reports are one of the earliest, up-to-date signs of the health of the economy, the patient is still in a lot of trouble.

When railroad executives from across North America descended on Capitol Hill recently, they were intent on pressing their case for investment tax credits and warding off pressure from lawmakers and re

U.S. Rail freight traffic plumbed new depths in the week ending Feb. 28.

BNSF Railway says the economic development work it did last year, to build up businesses that could feed into its rail network, helped generate about $4 billion worth of investments and over 4,000 new

BNSF Railway shed rail 140 more of its rail network employees, putting 2 percent of its mechanical workforce on the types of indefinite layoffs that railroads call furloughs.

Residents of American cities can breath easier, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

When the Surface Transportation Board hit BNSF Railway with its largest-ever penalty for overcharging a utility customer, the smackdown could be heard all across the country.

Officials from Class I and short line railroads ar

Montana says it plans to work at the federal level

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

Nebraska's Supreme Court dealt a setback to BNSF R

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

Kansas City Southern Railway plans to re-open a long-closed 90-mile link southwest of Houston before July.

Federal regulators have invoked their powers to pre-empt local governments, to make sure trains keep running unimpeded, to back Norfolk Southern Railway in a challenge from a Washington, D.C., suburb.

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation resumed their train movements through New Orleans, which had been disrupted for weeks after a CSX bridge fire earlier this month.

BNSF Railway sharply criticized the Surface Transportation Board's decision to hit it with $345 million in forced rate cuts and reparation payments, over freight rates it has been charging to deliver

In a major decision with far-reaching implications, the Surface Transportation Board ordered BNSF Railway to pay an estimated $345 million in reparations and rate cuts to coal-burning utilities - its

U.S. rail traffic was much lighter than last year in the week ending Feb. 14 with steep declines in major commodities as well as intermodal units.

Illinois Central Corp. confirmed Tuesday that it will buy Kansas City Southern Railway for an estima