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Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.This year''s soaring commodity prices will leave a perman

Large scale economic factors are driving changes in intermodal volume, according to a national month

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway is turning to regional short lin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.When CSX Transportation took delivery of its first low-em

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads slipped in the last week of May. Tonnage was flat as intermodal an

Watco, the Pittsburg, Kan.-based private operator of short-line railroads and related companies, has

Jack Gerard will be moving from his job as president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council to ta

A Norfolk Southern train derailed Tuesday evening in western Illinois, putting 31 cars off the track

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.In a pair of bold marketing moves, Norfolk Southern Railw

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Private equity firm Carlyle Group took a majority stake i

Genesee & Wyoming on Monday completed its acquisition of CAGY Industries The internation

Kansas City Railway increased its debt offering announced earlier this week from $250 million to $27

U.S. Development Group on Thursday opened the Dallas Fort Worth Rail Terminal in Arlington, Texas.&n

Norfolk Southern Railway named the 10 New York-based short line railroads that are working with the

The Surface Transportation Board said that for the first time railroads must disclose up front any p

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads slumped 1.2 percent lower than last year in the week ending May 24

Pacer International is boosting its warehousing operations in Southern California, as its Pacer Dist

CSX Transportation put two ultra-low emission locomotives in operation at its Rougemere Yard in Dear

Kansas City Southern Railway plans to offer $250 million of senior notes due 2015. The railroad said

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway''s attempts to redraw the rail

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.RailAmerica is officially seeking to abandon a short line

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A Kansas City power company won a regulatory rate case a

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads edged up in terms of ton-miles last week despite a lower number of

Private equity firm Carlyle Group took a majority stake in intermodal facilities operator ITS Techno

Norfolk Southern took a big step toward a largely untapped market for U.S. railroads, by getting som

Canadian National Railway's attempts to redraw the rail freight maps around Chicago, and to speed up

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.If the entire North American intermodal industry keyed of

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.BNSF Railway has warned in a filing with the Securities a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.It took nearly four months, but Union Pacific Railroad sa

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.American Railcar Industries saw its profit shrivel by 25

Intermodal traffic fell 2.4 percent through the first quarter, the fourth straight quarter of declin

Sharp increases in loadings of coal, grain, and metallic ores were largely responsible for an overal

In a signal of potential thawing relations between the railroad and trucking industries, BNSF chief

Canadian National Railway says its plan to buy the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern line around Chicago c

SEATTLE -- The Port of Seattle is set to enter the railroad business later this year under an agreem

RailAmerica is officially seeking to abandon a short line in Oregon that it closed last year for fea

The number of train accidents in the United States decreased by 23.3 percent in the past three years

Genesee & Wyoming saw more traffic in its continuing operations in April. The increase w

The National Transportation Safety Board determined May 13 that inadequate inspection and maintenanc

Commercial real estate developer The Allen Group sold 198 acres at the Dallas Logistics Hub to BNSF