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Genesee & Wyoming said Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of Rotterdam Rail Feeding f

The Surface Transportation Board set its first cost-of-capital measure using a new formula that is l

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.TCI and 3G Capital Partners, activist hedge funds that ar

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.America''s big railroads are finding ways to cut out mill

The United Transportation Union has delayed a set of internal trials that threaten the jobs of some

Rail traffic shot up significantly in the first week of April. Total volume was estimated at 34.3 bi

The Greenbrier companies earned a net profit of $1.4 million in the three months ending Feb. 28, com

Canada's Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on Monday launched a wide-ranging stu

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A fight within the United Transportation Union is escalat

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with Avondale Mills to settle claims from a 2005 accident in G

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Citing better tax rules under the new Economic Stimulus A

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Big U.S. railroads and their shippers are locked in an im

The Greenbrier Companies acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Roller Bearing Indust

TCI, one of two activist hedge funds trying to pry their way into some CSX board seats, charged in a

The board of directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver electe

Both carload and intermodal freight were down on U.S. railroads during March, but the month ended wi

Pacer International announced that as of April 1 it began offering expanded intermodal services thro

Canadian aircraft and railcar manufacturer Bombardier earned net income of $218 million in the fourt

Freight rail delays cost Amtrak $137 million in 2006, according to a report from the U.S. Department

Citing better tax rules under the new Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, Norfolk Southern Railway said i

Union Pacific on Friday announced an agreement to transfer its BulkTainer intermodal service to Chem

Canadian National Railway is facing opposition to its plan to buy a short line that would circumvent

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Don M. Hahs was removed as national president of the Brot

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The American Chemistry Council sums up its economic outlo

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Surging intermodal exports at the big Southern California

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway''s plan to buy a short line tha

Short line traffic was down 0.9 percent in the week ending March 15, according to the latest RMI Rai

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads dropped significantly during the week ending March 22, partly due

Leading grain and ethanol shipper Archer Daniels Midland sued the top five U.S. railroads over how t

The Teamsters removed Don M. Hahs as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.After dodging plenty of blows from a hedge fund i

Surging intermodal exports at the big Southern California ports are not enough to make up for lost i

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center, a facility that tr

Trespassers account for the largest number of fatalities in the railroad industry - approximately 50

A freight train derailed Sunday morning in a switching yard on the South Side of Chicago, causing a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing tighter d

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board is abandoning a yearlong

Rail traffic edged up in the 11th week of the year. Estimated ton-miles for all U.S railroads gained

Members of the United Transportation Union ratified an agreement renewing for the first time an hour

CSX raised the earnings outlook for its Eastern-U.S. railroad, both for the near and longer term, to