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The Surface Transportation Board cleared the way for Canadian National Railway to knit its various Chicago-area rail units more tightly together through a new batch of immediate trackage rights, rebuf

Two ports along Oregon's Columbia River are putting together multi-million projects aimed at helping shippers gain easier access to the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma, according to a report i

What’s in a name? Union Pacific Railroad thinks a more direct branding plan can help it boost revenue by putting more used cars on its trains.

Intermodal intermediary Pacer International, looking to shore up its finances amid big losses in the economic downturn, announced a restructured credit agreement with bankers Friday, beating its end-o

Freight traffic at small North American railroads in the latest week grew to its highest level in nearly six months last week as short lines, like major carriers, enjoyed an accelerating recovery from

A rise in railcar loads of coal, plus metal industry inputs of scrap and metallic ores, pushed bulk carloadings up by 2,990 units for major U.S. railroads in the week ending Aug.

Illinois will ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to award $300 million to a multi-year project to untangle its congested freight and passenger rail lines, under a $1.5 billion discretionary fundi

U.S. rail equipment maker Wabtec said its subsidiary in Doncaster, England, won a $9 million contract to build 24 specialty trackbed maintenance cars for Irish Rail.

The state of Illinois is seeking about $550 million in federal passenger rail grants under the Recovery Act, with most of the money aimed at projects that tie into freight rail corridors as well.

Rail equipment supplier Trinity Industries told a state agency it will close a railcar manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for an undetermined period of at least six months, and furlough 158 wor

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top tier or Class I North American railroads, unveiled a second set of management changes following the departure Aug. 7 of Scott E.

The Federal Railroad Administration is gearing up for big changes in the nation’s freight rail system, including direct government spending on track projects, as it implements President Obama’s plan t

Pricing information for container traffic from the West Coast is not publicly available, but industry traffic and revenue figures suggest railroad efficiency efforts have helped rail carriers maintain

The executive directors of the West Coast’s six major container ports in early August broke an informal code of silence on an issue that has concerned them since at least 2007.

The man running the nation’s rail safety and financing agency is a fifth-generation rail worker, onetime mayor of a Chicago suburb, longtime union official and someone who brings to his job a personal

The first state applications for “shovel-ready” passenger rail projects are due into the Federal Railroad Administration on Aug.

Rail industry equipment supplier FreightCar America said it received an expected notification letter from the Nasdaq stock exchange that it is out of compliance with deadlines for financial filings, a

The city of Temple, Texas, on Aug. 15 granted Patriot Rail an exclusive long-term license to provide rail switching and other rail-related services to customers at Central Pointe Rail Park.

The nation’s top railroads increased employment slightly from mid-June to mid-July.

Major U.S. railroads enjoyed the highest bulk carloadings in five months during the week ending Aug.

Small North American railroads saw their freight traffic rise in the week ending Aug. 15, with some cargoes pushing to the strongest levels since last winter.

Intermodal firm Pacer International completed the sale of its Pacer Transport flatbed truck unit for about $2 million to Universal Truckload Services. The sale closed Aug. 17, Pacer announced on Aug.

Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state-owned rail company, earned less than half the profit of a year ago due to "massive declines" in rail, ocean and air cargo volume.

The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program -- a massive construction plan to untangle clogged freight rail, commuter lines and roadway traffic -- is culling its game plan.<

Domestic freight shippers increased the share of rail hauls in the second quarter from three months earlier for goods carried in trailers and containers, taking them away from truckers.

Short line operator Watco Transportation Services got its new Alabama Warrior Railway in operation this month in and around Birmingham, Ala.

With its sales to the freight industry falling, in line with other rail equipment suppliers, Wabtec&rsquo;s new $44 million order to build commuter locomotives for Virginia Railway Express is helping

The short line operator formerly known as Arizona Railroad Group is no more.

CSX Transportation and state officials broke ground for an intermodal terminal at North Baltimore, Ohio, A spokesman said it will be the &ldquo;centerpiece&rdquo; facility for the big eastern-U.S.

If North American intermodal shipping were only a domestic business, there would be plenty of reason to say things are bottoming out.

Federal regulation of freight railroads may be headed for a more shipper-friendly overhaul, but Congress broke for its long recess with a reform bill still to be written and after a key regulatory app

Overall rail traffic declined from a week earlier at North American short lines tracked in the RMI RailConnect index, but small railroads recorded some of the strongest loadings in months for several

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation at ever-increasing amounts to pay for initial infrastructure projects, as DOT spending jumped by $347 million in the latest week.

Daniel R. Elliott was sworn in as chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates rail-shipper economic issues, the agency has confirmed.

One of the top North American short line companies is branching out to offer freight shippers a range of specialty services to handle their yard operations on a contract basis, from railcar switching

Large U.S.

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest U.S. Class I railroad and a rail unit in Mexico about the same size, said Scott E.

Norfolk Southern Railway added Greencastle, Pa., to its expanding list of planned intermodal terminals along a major interstate rail corridor it wants to develop, with actual construction in most case

Freight transportation in the United States stayed stuck in the doldrums in June, stalled at its lowest level since 1997, according to a report from the U.S.

Rail industry supplier National Railway Equipment booked 14 orders for new N-ViroMotive genset locomotives, with much of that business fueled by federal stimulus money and state aid.