Rail News

Matthew K. Rose could help to launch a new industrial revolution — a shift by North America’s freight railroads from diesel-powered locomotives to an age of electrification.

If CREATE works out as planned, trains will be able to move through Chicago more quickly. But run-through trains will remain the exception, not the rule.

A railroad executive, opening a new line of opposition to efforts to tighten antitrust oversight of the industry, said Friday carriers could seek federal compensation if the plan undercuts deals th

Federal regulators cleared the way for Indiana Rail Road to begin building a rail spur toward a new Peabody Energy coal mining site in southwestern Indiana.

Bulk freight volume at major U.S.

FreightCar America is suspending work at a railcar plant in Roanoke, Va., local news services say, in a move that affects 210 workers.

By the middle of February, employment levels at the U.S. operations of the seven Class I railroads had been set back by four years.

The Surface Transportation Board will air out some of the most controversial issues between railroads and their customers, in a wide-ranging public hearing on competition issues May 18 and 19.

Rail giant CSX said its profit fell 30 percent to $246 million in the first three months of 2009, as revenue fell 17 percent to $2.25 billion.

Canadian National Railway reported 50 instances when its trains or those of a short line it bought blocked road crossings in the Chicago area, in the first two months since it took over those tracks e

"It's really going to have to be a federal vision, with some federal funding."

A traffic decline of 30.2 percent from the same week last year was actually a bit of good news from the short line railroad industry. Things had been even worse the week before.

America’s freight sector is getting stimulated.

"You at least have to start with a dual locomotive."

At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff has been thinking about freight railroads.

"If the needs match up, then it will get done."

"It's not a technology leap. It's an incremental move."

“I wouldn’t have a problem with the federal government helping the freight railroads invest.”

"What he’s really talking about ... is Phase I of the Interstate II idea.”

Sometimes it takes a whole team of railroads to haul a project cargo.

As efforts continue in Congress to craft a new rail competition bill that shippers and railroads can both accept, a top railroad CEO says the pivotal lawmakers understand the need for rail firms to ea

Another week of unusually tough springtime weather, on top of a still-bad economy, left bulk railcar volume down 20.5 percent in the latest week for major U.S. railroads.

Although the Red River is subsiding in North Dakota so that railroads can start to dig out or mop up from heavy flooding, damage reports are still coming in.

It is a measure of how bad things are in the rail supply market that equipment builder Greenbrier spent much of its latest earnings announcement talking about ways it is guarding its cash position.

As he settles in as the new head of the Surface Transportation Board, the changes that Francis P. Mulvey brings may be more of emphasis than direction.

The new head of the Surface Transportation Board wants to fix some of the agency's creaky infrastructure.

Debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s took railroad operator Kansas City Southern off its CreditWatch list, after the company’s Mexican subsidiary privately sold $200 million in seven-y

BNSF is taking advantage of the slack in freight volume this year to cut time off its intermodal services but saying those improvements will outlast the downturn.

Canadian Pacific Railway temporarily shut down its line that connects the cities of Emerson and Winnipeg, after Red River flooding pushed out of North Dakota and across the Manitoba border into Canada

In many ways, cargo business on the West Coast can be as much about railroad operations as port operations.

The Surface Transportation Board may be on a path toward big changes in the way it oversees railroad rates and service.

Norfolk Southern Railway said its train system and industrial development work helped spur more than $2.2 billion in new shipper facilities or expansions last year.

Rep. James L.

Union Pacific Railroad plans to “hold firm” on pricing despite declining demand for rail freight transport, an investment analyst said in a report April 3 after meetings with UP management

Discussions among congressional staff, rail customers and railroads to craft new competition rules for that industry “are moving along nicely,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Weather problems flattened traffic overall for the largest U.S. railroads in the week ending March 28, but even so some cargoes linked to economic demand picked up.

A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased in February for the first time in six months, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2.

The union representing train engineers is flatly opposing a proposed law to strip the big freight rail lines of their limited antitrust immunity, and urging key lawmakers to meet with shippers and car