Rail News

Amid shriveling demand for new railcars, FreightCar America's recent news of plunging third-quarter

Canadian Pacific Railway and the Mayo Clinic completed a first round of discussions about the railro

An Amtrak passenger train ran up the back of a freight train Friday on the south side of Chicago.

Rail equipment maker Greenbrier revealed that its chief financial officer, Larry Brady, is aimed tow

Rail traffic was lighter this year during the Thanksgiving week. Carload units were down 0.1 percent

The Institute of International Container Lessors has announced the opening of new headquarters in Wa

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway''s bold attempt to reshape rail-

Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference extended their no strike/no lockou

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Citing a "disconnect" within the federal government when

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The board of CSX Transportation told a large, critical sh

Canadian National Railway's planned purchase of most of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern's lines arou

FreightCar America's net of $8.7 million was down from $36.8 million in third-quarter 2006.

FreightCar America is shaking up its sales force in the wake of a dismal third quarter. Afte

Traffic on U.S. railroads climbed 2.6 percent in the week ending Nov. 17, the Association of America

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Intermodal shipments at major U.S. railroads shrank 3.7 p

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.A derailment that sent six fully loaded coal railcars int

1. Reinforce the importance of intermodal connectors. Because they're not the specific domain of any

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The quarterly earnings of the railcar industry''s major p

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.A year ago, Donald Orris said he wanted to step down as c

If you're looking for a national transportation policy to emerge during 2008, forget it. It's not go

Surges in major carload commodities and a tiny bump in intermodal containers led to a positive week

ATLANTA -- Two longtime intermodal transportation specialists said one way to break a political logj

On Monday CSX Intermodal announced it will open its new Buffalo ICTF terminal on Nov. 19.The

The Intermodal Association of North America elected Theodore Prince chairman of the board of directo

ATLANTA -- Express provider UPS is willing to pay higher user fees to fund infrastructure improvemen

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.This was supposed to be time of easy growth for the inter

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When Hub Group, one of the largest intermodal marketing f

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Technically, says a Nov. 2 notice in the Federal Register

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian Pacific Railway''s acquisition of the U.S. regio

Regulators in the European Union granted approval Wednesday to the purchase of English Welsh and Sco

Profits at American Railcar were cut by more than half in the third quarter as production of hopper

U.S. rail traffic increased slightly in the week ending Nov. 3 after another weak month in October,

The president of intermodal and logistics firm Pacer International, Tom Shurstad, is stepping down a

The Greenbrier Companies showed significant improvement in earnings in the quarter ending Aug. 31. <

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., and BNSF Railway bot

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The freight railcar industry shrank further in the third

The railroads are still making money but there are growing signs that weakness in some rail-related

Hub Group is coming off a record third quarter for profit, has strong cash flow and working capital

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When Hub Group said in September its Comtrak Logistics un

Forget any idea of a fast-track review of your merger plan, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to