Rail News

The Pacific Northwest's three top ports, which collectively move more than 6 million containers a ye

BNSF Railway on Tuesday announced its plan to spend $2.45 billion in 2008 on projects to improve its

North American sales of crossties for railroad projects fell 4.8 percent to 20.3 million last year,

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads during the week ended January 26 slumped significantly in comparis

Norfolk Southern on Tuesday named Joseph C. Dimino to the position of vice president audit and compl

The plan to merge the United Transportation Union, the largest single U.S. rail labor group, with a

Due to extreme cold and wind conditions, CN on Tuesday temporarily reduced freight service in most a

Strong yields and an increase in fuel surcharges brought in a 9 percent increase in revenue in the f

Canadian Pacific saw significant growth in net income in the fourth quarter and full year of 2007 ch

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.It may appear the Surface Transportation Board split the

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.CSX Transportation had a difficult task as it led off the

The Greenbrier Companies agreed to acquire the assets of freight car equipment maker American Allied

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway said United Steelworkers union

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Investor Warren Buffett is celebrating the start of 2008

Canadian Pacific on Sunday reached a tentative agreement with the union representing its mechanical

The new labor contract between U.S. railroads and their conductors and trainmen in the United Transp

Orders for new railcars picked up in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months at m

Railcar lessor GATX earned $40.8 million in the fourth quarter, a 13 percent increase over the prior

Rail traffic in the week ending Jan. 19 surged upward to 33.6 billion ton-miles, a 6.7 percent gain

Union Pacific earned net income of $491 million in the fourth quarter on revenue of $4.2 billion. Wh

CN and the United Transportation Union signed a tentative labor agreement that renews hourly wage ag

Norfolk Southern had a 4 percent gain in net income in the fourth quarter, to $399 million, even tho

Canadian National Railway enjoyed a 67 percent surge in profit in the fourth quarter spurred by spec

Eastern-U.S. railroad CSX posted a fourth-quarter gain in both net and operating income, as price bo

Investor Warren Buffett followed up his first set of January purchases of BNSF stock with an even la

After admitting to "disappointing" financial results for the end of the 2007, the head of railcar ma

A couple of recent acquisitions show railroad operating companies looking for new ways to augment th

Norfolk Southern Railway said rejection by federal regulators of its planned joint venture to create

Union Pacific Railroad, the largest North American railroad, says soaring fuel costs, weather disrup

Railroad Day on Capitol Hill, an annual lobbying extravaganza, will happen Thursday, March 13. <

The Surface Transportation Board, in one of its most significant decisions, ordered an important cha

After a year-long downward trend, rail traffic made a solid move in the opposite direction in the se

Canadian National Railway said United Steelworkers union members ratified a new four-year contract f

Investor Warren Buffett celebrated the start of 2008 with a new round of stock purchases that left h

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Genesee & Wyoming on Jan. 1 completed its acquisition of

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.There were plenty of clouds but not much of a silver lini

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.As the conductors'' union entered at least a monthlong h

Railcar and locomotive leasing company GATX became sole supplier and part owner of a New England sho

U.S. railroads drove into a steep hole to start 2008 with carload traffic down 3.2 percent and inter

Citizens in the Barrington suburb of Chicago met Wednesday with a representative of Canadian Nationa