Rail News

The National Labor Relations Board last week certified election results making a Teamsters local uni

Canadian National Railway announced Thursday that it plans to acquire 65 new fuel-efficient, high-ho

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads declined slightly in the week ending June 16, according to numbers

A key Teamster union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said its members voted 2

The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad has made no secret that it needs private capital to build

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Rail investments have been a hot target for private equit

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Hub Group has shown it can sharply boost earnings in a fl

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Whoever said "the customer is always right" clearly didn'

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.It isn''t just the U.S. government looking to make the ra

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When coal customers have problems with rail service under

Swedish freight company Green Cargo awarded a major modernization contract to Bombardier Transportat

The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad has made no secret that it needs private capital to build

Genesee & Wyoming, operator of short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, C

The decline in U.S. rail freight traffic accelerated at the start of June as carload traffic fell 5.

Pacer Distribution Services, the warehousing and distribution arm of Pacer International, opened a 5

Norfolk Southern celebrated its 25th anniversary and honored former chairman Arnold B. McKinnon by n

The Greenbrier Companies received orders from two customers to cut down a total of 2,500 existing 48

The United Transportation Union and Sheet Metal Workers International Association agreed to form a n

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canada''s second-largest railroad, Canadian Pacific, and

Rail intermodal is catching it from all sides. The sector faces tough price competition from truckin

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian railroads dealing with restive labor unions may

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.In a year when major U.S. railroads have seen their vehic

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Rail carload and intermodal shipments continued to slip i

Cargo theft is a multibillion-dollar extravaganza that's coming to a theater near you.It beg

SAN FRANCISCO -- Agricultural exporters in the United States are losing market share due to rail equ

Canadian National Railway warned that flooding was expected to disrupt trains moving to and from the

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was down even more sharply during May than in the previous four mo

OTTAWA -- Canadian Pacific track maintenance workers were scheduled to return to work at the end of

In another move by a private equity firm into a freight transportation-related enterprise, The Carly

Canada's second-largest railroad, Canadian Pacific, and striking track workers reached a tentative c

Kansas City Southern Railway is asking the Federal Railroad Administration to lend it $100 million u

Intermodal service provider Pacer International said it hired a search firm to help find a replaceme

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.As the second major Canadian rail strike of 2007 entered

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Tough competition from increasingly shipper-friendly truc

Short line and regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming promoted two top executives,

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad grew from companies that bridged mountains, deserts and rive

The City of Grand Prairie, Texas, in cooperation with Union Pacific Railroad introduced June 1 the f

A dance of sorts took place under the crystal chandeliers and gilded ceiling of Washington's Mayflow

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When it comes to building traffic, Canadian Pacific Railw

OTTAWA -- As a strike by Canadian Pacific Railway track maintenance workers entered its third week,