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Canadian National Railway plans to spend more than $1.5 billion on its system this year, not countin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Kansas City Southern Railway has restructured its three t

CSX said it took two activist hedge funds to court, suing them ahead of a shareholders meeting where

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Mayo Clinic, a significant opponent of past plans to expa

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.As the nation''s freight outlook turns more cloudy, railr

If there was any doubt whether CSX thought hedge fund TCI was mounting a serious challenge to how it

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday assigned its lowest investment grade rating, 'BBB

The CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center, a facility that transfers intermodal boxes between truck and

In the first week of March, Freight traffic on U.S. railroads fell much further than the average for

The Surface Transportation Board abandoned a yearlong effort to pin down when so-called hybrid prici

After declaring the economic stimulus package signed by President Bush "a woefully inadequate plan"

A request by the Entergy Arkansas utility to build a new 40-mile short line pits a major power produ

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Invoking the potential threat of a terrorist attack using

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway is trying to head off charges by

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.A request by the Entergy Arkansas utility to build a new

Kansas City Southern Railway has restructured its three transportation operating divisions and the t

Kansas City Southern appointed Michael W. Upchurch as senior vice president for financial management

U.S. rail volume was down 0.7 percent in week 9, but Canadian railroads saw a 4.2 percent increase.

The RailConnect short line traffic index showed small railroads increasing their volume by 1.85 perc

The Association of American Railroads appointed John T. Gray as vice president of policy and economi

The number of train accidents in the United States declined for the third consecutive year, accordin

Norfolk Southern on Monday opened the Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal near Columbus, Ohio.

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The solid earnings of two important companies in the rail

Kansas City Southern appointed Brian H. Bowers senior vice president intermodal and automotive.

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Days after CSX Transportation gave dissident shareholder

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Wabtec, a maker of locomotive brakes plus other products

Charles W. Moorman, Norfolk Southern Railway's chairman, president and CEO, predicted that overall f

Sharp gains in loadings of the leading commodities pulled overall rail freight to a 2.1 percent gain

Union Pacific received a subpoena seeking documents pertaining to the company's fuel surcharge progr

Kansas City Southern's current directors unanimously elected Henry R. Davis of Mexico City to the co

The head of the Association of American Railroads called on chemical companies Tuesday to stop manuf

TrentonWorks, a non-operating subsidiary of the Greenbrier Companies, applied to the Supreme Court o

Norfolk Southern elected Karen N. Horn to the company's board of directors. Horn, a partner

TTX, a railcar pool owned by North America's major railroads, added a new owner, Ferrocarril Mexican

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.CSX Transportation and activist hedge fund TCI are tradin

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.While railroads may indeed face heavy storms each winter,

Shifting transportation patterns in the U.S. trade with Asia bode ill for intermodal shipments from

While railroads may indeed face heavy storms each winter, the winter of 2007-08 is already turning o

Coal stocks in the nation's electric power sector reached an all-time high as the winter months appr

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.North American railroads looking for something to jump-st