Rail News

Railroad CEOs are describing a "peak season" that sounds more like a fizzle than a sizzle.Th

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway is in talks to buy a short line

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Federal Railroad Administration offered a rule change

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads slipped during the week ended September 8 in comparison with the c

In a move to expand drayage operations, Hub Group subsidiary Comtrak Logistics agreed to acquire DNJ

VANCOUVER, Canada -- A Canadian National Railway executive said that a strike by United Transportati

Canadian National Railway is in talks to buy a short line that rings Chicago and is owned by U.S. St

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.A dispute between the largest railroad in the eastern Uni

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Bridge type Description of work

The government's watchdog agency looked at rail bridge and tunnel safety - and the nation's approach

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board will delay by only two w

The railroad industry's effective moratorium on big mergers is emphatically over and now shippers, r

The rail industry and a group of utility coal shippers can agree on one thing: Changes to the Surfac

Since a rail slowdown took hold in earnest in last year's second half, the 2007 traffic comparisons

The Surface Transportation Board on Sept. 4 refined its rail rate dispute resolution procedures to m

A major shipper group says it sees no major objections to the Canadian Pacific Railway's proposed pu

Canadian Pacific Railway announced an agreement late Tuesday to acquire the Dakota, Minnesota &

BNSF Railway, the second-largest railroad company in North America, said Warren Buffett's investment

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Warren Buffett''s Berkshire Hathaway investment company b

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The rail industry and a group of utility coal shippers ca

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Storms that tore through the Midwest buffeted railroads i

The rail industry's economic regulator, the Surface Transportation Board, said it would only delay i

U.S. railroads originated fewer carloads and far fewer intermodal shipments during the week ended Au

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment company bought another 10.1 million shares of BNSF Ra

Major North American railroads on one hand have solid reasons to believe they can keep hiking rates

Railroad engineers in the Teamsters union unveiled a new deal with Norfolk Southern over pay and wor

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management already f

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Railroad engineers in the Teamsters union unveiled a new

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.While acknowledging a slump in freight shipments this yea

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Utilizing the Meridian Speedway rail corridor, western ra

The railroad freight recession eased up in the third week of August as carload traffic declined a li

Union Pacific on Wednesday broke ground on a new $90-million intermodal terminal in San Antonio, Tex

Private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management already faced resistance from Canadian Pacific when

Utilizing the Meridian Speedway rail corridor, western rail giant Union Pacific and eastern carrier

GE Equipment Services, Rail Services on Tuesday launched its TMHZ trailer management program, which

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.What rail analysts have dubbed the 2007 "freight recessio

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway may be seeing coal shipments dec

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board proposed a formula chang

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Although weak containerized imports helped cut North Amer

Walter G. Rich, a former short line railroad executive who as chairman for the American Short Line a