Rail News

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.

Union Pacific Railroad is asking federal regulators to help it fend off certain new long-haul chlorine shipment requests, in cases where receiving customers could get the supplies delivered by pipelin

Kansas City Southern named Mary Stadler senior vice president and chief accounting officer. Stadler will report to KCS executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael W. Upchurch.

Trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, is declining rapidly as the recession deepens.

BNSF Railway shed rail 140 more of its rail network employees, putting 2 percent of its mechanical workforce on the types of indefinite layoffs that railroads call furloughs.

Residents of American cities can breath easier, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The atmosphere surrounding the trucking and railroad debate over truck size and weight limits is more frigid than ever, and shippers claim they’re stuck in the middle.

When the Surface Transportation Board hit BNSF Railway with its largest-ever penalty for overcharging a utility customer, the smackdown could be heard all across the country.

Trinity Industries, the largest North American bui

Officials from Class I and short line railroads ar

Montana says it plans to work at the federal level

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

Nebraska's Supreme Court dealt a setback to BNSF R

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

Pacer International appointed Robert J. Grassi to the board of directors effective March 1.

"The bottom continues to be pushed out," said transportation equipment forecaster FTR Associates as it cut its outlook for North American railcar deliveries in 2009.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama invoked one of the most dramatic rail construction efforts in U.S.

Kansas City Southern Railway plans to re-open a long-closed 90-mile link southwest of Houston before July.

When it comes to taking it on the chin from the railroads over the fight for government funding, the trucking industry is apparently mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec's fourth quarter profit rose 8 percent from a year earlier even though "demand softened dramatically in certain segments of the global freight rail market," its presiden

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation resumed their train movements through New Orleans, which had been disrupted for weeks after a CSX bridge fire earlier this month.

Federal regulators have invoked their powers to pre-empt local governments, to make sure trains keep running unimpeded, to back Norfolk Southern Railway in a challenge from a Washington, D.C., suburb.

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Across North America, railcar and intermodal container builders are slashing costs to guard their cash until orders begin to strengthen again.

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U.S. rail traffic was much lighter than last year in the week ending Feb. 14 with steep declines in major commodities as well as intermodal units.

Railcar orders plummeted in the fourth quarter, cutting profit 43 percent for Trinity Industries at the end of a year with record revenue and a respectable full year net income.

In a major decision with far-reaching implications, the Surface Transportation Board ordered BNSF Railway to pay an estimated $345 million in reparations and rate cuts to coal-burning utilities - its

BNSF Railway sharply criticized the Surface Transportation Board's decision to hit it with $345 million in forced rate cuts and reparation payments, over freight rates it has been charging to deliver

A shipper-backed proposal to increase truck productivity by lifting federal weight restrictions was opposed by railroad interests at a recent National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Washingto

Both Trinity Industries and Greenbrier Companies, the two largest builders of freight railcars in No

Construction of an intermodal on-dock rail terminal at the Port of Jacksonville has been delayed by