Rail News

The weakening economy reared its head in the latest data on trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, showing year-over-year surface transportation growth of imports and exports in 2008 to b

The Producer Price Index in the transportation and warehousing sector slowed to 0.5 percent in February from 0.8 percent in January.

London -- France's freight transport system faces paralysis on March 19 as longshoremen, railroad workers, truckers and air cargo handlers join a 24-hour general strike to protest against President Ni

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.”

The European Shippers’ Council and the European Rail Freight Customers’ Platform today agreed to merge into a single organization.

Business is very slow for manufacturers in New York, according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

Industrial production, a key measure of shipping demand, fell 1.4 percent in February, according to a report from the Federal Reserve.

President Obama named Francis P.

While expanding railroad profits during the economic downturn are drawing shipper attention, the hundreds of small carriers that feed into the Class Is are scrambling for any freight and government he

The economy and efforts to tighten transportation regulation are colliding together in Congress.

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is getting the short line its shippers wanted, and the chance to get the mostly closed rail route back in op

Short line traffic braked harder in the latest week, as measured both from the same time in 2008 and against the pace of industry activity since January.

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

London -- France's state railway, SNCF, on March 11 reported losses at its freight unit widened to a record $430 million in 2008 from $328 million the previous year as core traffic plunged in the fina

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

Freight transportation services declined in January for the third consecutive month, pulling the Department of Transportation’s index to its lowest level in more than five years.

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.

North America’s short line railroads saw traffic in all categories fall 21.1 percent from a year earlier in the first eight weeks of 2009.

Short line operator Genesee & Wyoming said February freight traffic on railroads it held a year ago fell 6.4 percent, although the company’s new acquisitions lifted total volume.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

There’s another stimulus plan under way in Louisiana and Mississippi, where two new federal efforts are trying to help New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast recover from the powerful 200

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A leading freight transportation analyst warned March 9 he is cutting his volume and earnings estimates under a “deep recession, no recovery” U.S. forecast for all of 2009.

Railroads felt left out of the massive stimulus bill that Congress and the Obama administration negotiated.

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.

Polzug Intermodal launched its unit train project within the Caucasus Mountains connecting to central Asia.

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

Container Corp.

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

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill March 5 to repeal limited antitrust exemptions for U.S.

American Railcar Industries saw fourth-quarter revenue rise 25 percent to $203 million from a year earlier, as production was boosted by an Alabama factory expansion, but net income fell 3.7 percent t

The sinking freight market may push manufacturer Greenbrier to pare back a big long-term supply contract with one of its key lease-fleet customers, General Electric Railcar Services.

The United Transportation Union is asking President Obama to elevate Francis P. Mulvey to be chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates railroads, Washington sources said.

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

Traffic from short line railroads is running dramatically behind last year’s pace in the RMI RailConnect index.