Rail News

Union Pacific earned second quarter net income of $446 million, up 14 percent compared to $390 milli

At a time when rail freight traffic is slumping and car orders have slid, Canada's National Industri

After a major newspaper reported a private equity takeover bid was brewing for Canadian Pacific Rail

Container and chassis lessor Interpool prepared to close on its takeover by Fortress Investment Grou

CSX earnings for the second quarter fell 17 percent compared with a year ago, when hurricane related

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Kansas City Southern Railway and CenterPoint Properties s

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Just a month after saying it would buy an intermodal spec

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Greenbrier, a major rail equipment manufacturer, reported

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The summer was supposed to bring balmy relief to Western

Bourque Data Systems and Satamatics integrated their satellite communications networks to develop mo

Overall rail volume decreased again in the week ended July 7 as floods in Texas and Kansas retarded

Hub Group and Intermodal Partners mutually agreed Monday to call off the acquisition they had announ

CenterPoint Properties formed a partnership with Kansas City Southern Railway to develop a 1,300-acr

Railcar manufacturer the Greenbrier Companies boosted earnings 22 percent in the quarter ended May 3

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Deutsche Bahn is expanding its logistics business and its

Burlington Northern Santa Fe reopened early Monday morning a major route for transporting coal throu

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.While railroads say they are spending more to beef up the

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.BNSF Railway and Ridge Property Trust are planning a majo

Union Pacific Railroad announced that by the end of July, it will have replaced the majority of swit

U.S. rail traffic fell 1.8 percent in the week ended June 30, according to figures from the Associat

BNSF Railway and Ridge Property Trust are planning a major freight-shipping warehouse park outside C

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill from the legislature that tried to curb railroads' use o

Henry C. Wolf, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Norfolk Southern, retired effective July

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.U.S. railroads have key support for their five-year contr

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Fortress Investment Group - a private equity firm once be

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway is doubling the number of new l

CN resumed operations and canceled a traffic embargo on its Toronto-Montreal main line after protest

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.FreightCar America, the top builder of aluminum railcars

CN on Friday halted freight operations and embargoed all traffic on its Toronto-Montreal main line a

One way to beat transportation costs is to own the rail line yourself. That's what Garick, a nationw

Trinity Industries purchased 20 percent of the equity in a newly-formed railcar leasing and manageme

Kansas City Southern appointed Thomas J. Naso assistant vice president marketing for the intermodal

Volume on U.S. railroads in week 25 came in dead even with the comparable week a year earlier, when

Ventura Transfer Company added several new chassis and containers to their fleet in Phoenix, Arizona

New York Container Terminal announced Friday that CSX Transportation will begin intermodal rail serv

FreightCar America, the top builder of aluminum railcars and coal-hauling cars in North America, iss

Genesee & Wyoming's Mexican subsidiary Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab on Monday notified the Mexica

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The largest coal-hauling and intermodal railroad in North

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad is still seeki

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Greenbrier usually builds new railcars, but may have foun