Rail News

A Lehman Brothers analyst on Thursday lowered his fourth quarter expectations for four Class 1 railr

Canadian National Railway will spend about $1.4 billion on track, equipment and other capital invest

Rail volume contracted in the month of November, according to figures from the Association of Americ

BNSF Railway hired former Surface Transportation Board chairman Roger Nober as Executive Vice Presid

A $70-billion dollar Japanese trading company is looking to the United States to get a handle on the

Union Pacific carried 20 million tons of coal from mines in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in November.

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Iowa Northern Railway received a $25.5 million loan f

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Association of American Railroads says the timeline f

A sputtering domestic intermodal market is turning into an opportunity for asset-backed companies li

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.RailAmerica''s billion dollar private equity deal last mo

The board of directors at Canadian National Railway approved a one-year contract extension for E. Hu

Rail traffic declined further in week 47, according to figures from the Association of American Rail

As rail volume growth slowed over the past month, service metrics have improved for North American r

Norfolk Southern announced that Daniel M. Mazur has been appointed vice president of strategic plann

Short line traffic dropped for the fifth straight week in week 45, hurt by large declines in ores, f

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway opened a $4 million grain termi

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Intermodal Association of North America elected Frank

Plans by the railroads to implement stiff rate increases beginning next year will reverberate throug

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Container chassis pools are proving they can unlock valua

A sputtering domestic intermodal market is turning into an opportunity for asset-backed companies li

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Pacer International appointed Michael Uremovich chairman

Norfolk Southern named Daniel M. Mazur vice president strategic planning, effective December 1. Mazu

Total rail and intermodal volumes for the week ended Nov. 17 declined seven-tenths of one percent ye

RailAmerican, Boca Raton, Fla.-based short line and regional rail service, carried 9 percent fewer c

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.A leading rail shipper group will have leadership in plac

For the third time in a year and a half, Canadian National Railway will reduce the rate it uses to c

Union Pacific elected Thomas "Mack" McLarty, 60, to a newly created eleventh seat on its board of di

A cross-country cold storage transportation loop is suddenly making rail competitive with trucks for

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Railroads are pushing back against the United Transportat

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.-- Railcars loaded inside cooled facility not breaking th

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Shippers may soon be able to get more value from schedule

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Intermodal volume set a new record of 3.7 million contain

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Regional rail carrier Florida East Coast Railway increase

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Surface Transportation Board streamlined the way it e

Shippers and brokers came together Nov. 10 on the wording for the new Model Intermodal Transportatio

Railroad volume went through the third consecutive week of no growth in the week ended Nov. 4, accor

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The United Transportation Union pledged to throw its weig

Donald C. Orris didn't invent the double-stack railcar, but he's recognized as the father of the sta

Swelling Asian imports boosted intemodal traffic to a new record in the third quarter. Total volume

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Railroads racked up big profits from strong pricing in th