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Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Federal Railroad Administration is ordering a halt to

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A major shipper complaint against fuel surcharges levied

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Even in this long-running contraction in freight traffic,

CN ordered 232 new iron ore cars and is refurbishing 500 others as part of a long-term upgrade of it

Citing "extreme uncertainties" in global financial markets, the German government said it is delayin

Three Class I railroads on Oct. 8 signed an agreement establishing interoperability standards for Po

Kevin Bagby is stepping down from his position as chief financial officer of FreightCar America, eff

An unusual surge in intermodal containers offset falling grain volume to boost overall rail traffic

Kevin Schieffer, president and CEO of the DM&E Railroad, left the company Oct. 7 as the company

The Union Pacific Railroad has agreed to lease 10 acres at the Port of Tacoma's underutilized South

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.After waging a long, bitter fight against dissident inves

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Hurricane Ike might have missed landing its hardest punch

In this era of large container ships and high-volume intermodal rail corridors, it makes sense that

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway''s bid to unite with Pan Am Rail

Most men with families to support wouldn't have the confidence to resign from a job a year short of

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.As a boy in Bellevue, Ky., Phillip C. Yeager lived throug

As a boy in Bellevue, Ky., Phillip C. Yeager lived through the Great Depression and sometimes earned

The Federal Railroad Administration is ordering a halt to railroad operators using cell phones and o

Norfolk Southern Railway's bid to unite with Pan Am Railways in a New England joint venture network

Genesee & Wyoming expanded its holdings in the South and Midwest with the acquisition Oct. 1 of

Hurricane Ike and the national credit crunch combined for a one-two punch that clobbered freight rai

A major shipper complaint against fuel surcharges levied by Union Pacific Railroad appears headed fo

Union Pacific elected Michael R. McCarthy to the railroad's board of directors, effective Oct. 1.

Phillip C. Yeager, 80, the founder and chairman of one of the nation's largest freight transportatio

The Surface Transportation Board gave conditional approval Tuesday to Canadian Pacific Railway's pur

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.It''s been weeks since hurricanes Gustav and Ike pummeled

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The sudden drop in diesel prices lately, along with "stro

Canadian National Railway is seeking an express track around the Surface Transportation Board by ask

Canadian National Railway is seeking an express track around the Surface Transportation Board by ask

At least the rail industry could blame the weather."Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was of

After waging a long, bitter fight against dissident investors led by two activist hedge funds, CSX t

The sudden drop in diesel prices , along with "strong operating efficiency," means that Union Pacifi

Canadian National Railway asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to or

Traffic on major U.S. railroads continued to weaken in the week ended Sept. 13, as carloads of bulk

CSX Transportation reached a settlement with the District of Columbia for a derailment that led to a

CSX said it has invited two minority directors to join its board immediately, after the Second Circu

Norfolk Southern Railway and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen agreed to keep lin

A federal appeals court decided not to block some CSX shares used to install two of four dissident b

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Ahead of the latest hurricanes and tropical storms, railr

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board dealt a blow to Canadian