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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 Surface Transportation Board case involving a new 80-mile rail line in Alaska suggests a potential fissure between the railroad industry’s three key economic regulators even as Congress debate

MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway on Monday announced it will make an initial donation of C$100,000 (US$97,500) to the Red Cross in support of the agency's relief efforts in Haiti.

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.

Eastern-U.S. rail giant CSX Transportation is telling employees it will match dollar for dollar any donations they make to the American Red Cross to aid earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Small railroads across North America started 2010 with traffic near the levels of mid-December but below the recent November peaks, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional c

Intermodal logistics provider RoadLink named L. Michael Shelton as president, reporting to CEO Mike Haley.

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

DB Schenker Rail acquired an additional 11 percent of the Italian rail freight operator NordCargo, bringing its total stake in the Milan-based company to 60 percent.

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 Amtrak passenger rail service will buy more than 100 locomotives, along with hundreds of new passenger cars, in what it is billing as a &ldquo;major equipment purchase.&rdquo;

Rail supplier Portec Rail Products began selling its fault detection product line in China, expanding sales in that country.

A gigantic snowstorm across the Appalachian region, followed by mishaps that shut down both conveyor belts at a huge coal export terminal, brought 2009 to sour close for rail shipments of export coal.

Railroads and shippers are in a growing dustup over coal dust that could change the way key rail cargo is handled.

Rail freight shippers in the United States have plenty of reason to see 2010 as a time when government actions could fundamentally reshape their industry.

North America&rsquo;s railroads face challenges in 2010 notably different from those most freight-hauling industries must deal with: how to generate better results after what in many ways was a banner

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

GE Transportation will deliver 50 new freight locomotives to Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan, with the engines built in the United States and the locomotive structures in Brazil.

Small railroads across North America lost one fourth of their freight volume in 2009, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional railroads.

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier lost $3.2 million in its September-November fiscal first quarter of 2010, less of a decline than its $3.9 million loss a year earlier.

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

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 Alaska Railroad won approval from the Surface Transportation Board to build an 80-mile northern extension from the town of North Pole, outside Fairbanks, southeast to Delta Junction, an area now s

Surface trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico grew for the fifth consecutive month in October and showed improvement in the rate of dec

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

It took all of 2009 to get a landmark rail regulatory overhaul bill through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.