Rail News

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’s large coal loading port terminal is back to normal at Norfolk, Va., and the railroad on Jan. 5 lifted its “force majeure” 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’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.

Trinity Industries, spreading out beyond the troubled rail equipment market, bought highway construction products manufacturer for about $61 million in cash, the railcar maker said Thursday.

The Lamberts Point Coal Terminal, the big Virginia coastal site where Norfolk Southern Railway trains deliver Appalachian coal that can be loaded onto ships for export, should have the first of its tw

Container Corp. of India, the state-owned intermodal logistics provider, will increase its freight charges by about 6 percent, effective Jan. 8, 2010.

Norfolk Southern Railway is telling customers it is keeping in place a “force majeure” declaration for coal deliveries, after absorbing damage to its big ocean terminal for coal loadings o

The U.S. lines of the seven Class I freight railroads cut 1,923 jobs in the month to mid-November, leaving their combined workforce at a new low of 147,097.

FreightCar America named former senior executive Edward Whalen its new president and CEO after Christian Ragot left the company this week under what the railcar manufacturer said was mutual consent.

The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service.

Pacer International is capping a transformational year for the major intermodal middleman with a sudden change in leadership.

Given the secretive way a rail regulatory overhaul was crafted in the Senate over recent months, it seemed inevitable the landmark bill would emerge late in a jammed legislative calendar and req

South Africa’s state-owned rail freight utility, Transnet Freight Rail, is acquiring 100 diesel electric locomotives from GE Transportation.

Small North American railroads loaded up more railcars with paper products in the week ending Dec. 12 than any time since June 6, according to the RMI RailConnect index.

In a week when many cargoes were down as a heavy winter storm blew across the Midwest, major U.S. railroads had their strongest loadings of scrap materials in three weeks.

GE Transportation, which is one of the two major U.S.

The major lobbying group for the railroad industry said it has “concerns” about pending legislation to beef up the Surface Transportation Board and order major changes in federal regulatio

The negotiations over the past year that led the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to overhaul competition rules in the railroad industry were tougher than those still under way fo

Simply shifting freight from truck to rail won't result in a greener transportation system, transportation analyst Noël Perry said, arguing sustainability efforts should focus on entire supply ch

A landmark revamping of federal rail regulations cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, but some tough issues including whether to strip railroads of some antitrust immunit

Florida will pay CSX Transportation $432 million for a 61-mile track segment after Gov. Charlie Crist on Dec. 16 signed into law a measure to boost passenger rail operations.

Ethanol terminal operator U.S. Development Group said its West Colton Rail Terminal at Rialto, Calif., has started handling ethanol railcars from Union Pacific Railroad.

The Dec. 15 transition of its chief executive by intermodal provider Pacer International had been planned for some time, said incoming Chairman and CEO Daniel W. Avramovich.

An Iowa Pacific Holdings short line railroad in Texas launched a major upgrade over 70 miles of track, using a recent loan from the Federal Railroad Administration.

The Greenbrier Companies agreed with General Electric Railcar Services to modify GER's railcar manufacturing contract by reducing the order from 11,900 to 6,000 railcars.

Freight services provider Pacer International said Tuesday Chairman and CEO Michael E. Uremovich is leaving the company immediately and will be replaced by Daniel W.

Fitch Ratings expects modest volume improvements in 2010 for the U.S.

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Union Pacific Railroad packed more unit trains of agricultural products in November than ever in its history, with 400 all-crop trains topping the previous high of 381 in October 2006.

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an ac

Major U.S. railroads posted their highest new loadings of chemical cargoes in 2009 during the week ending Dec. 5, a signal of stirring industrial demand.

Railroads and their customers are getting their first look at a long-awaited bill that would overhaul federal regulations governing shippers’ access to competitive service and how their disputes

The $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment firm cleared a key antitrust review process.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is backing a sale of seven locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel to Iron Ore Company of Canada, with a $10 million loan guarantee for commercial bank financing.

While the economy’s collapse cut intermodal volumes and some rail lines focused on long-term corridor construction, Union Pacific Railroad went tunneling in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

When Teamsters locomotive engineers launched a strike against Canadian National Railway on Nov.

An Iowa short line railroad will receive a federal grant of nearly $7 million to rebuild a bridge torn away in June 2008 by the flooding Cedar River.