Rail News

Sunday's crash of two Illinois Central trains claimed the lives of at least three men. The a

The city of Chicago is calling for a 2.2-mile exclusion zone banning rail and truck hazardous materi

Two Illinois Central Railroad trains collided in Mississippi July 10, killing at least one man.<

Growth continues on U.S. rails through the first six months of the year. Coal carloads increased 2.7

U.S. railroads are on terror alert. Carriers deployed additional police officers and K-9 tea

Railroads must harden their trains' event recorders and collect more operating data from locomotives

Rerouting trains around downtown Chicago could throw a wrench in the $1.5 billion Chicago Region Env

The economic engine that created a surge in intermodal business over the last two years is losing st

Railroads plan to keep the lines of communication open with customers by hosting a customer service

The Transportation Communications International Union and The International Association of Machinist

U.S. railroads continued to increase traffic in late June, boosting carloads 0.6 percent to 335,731

Kansas City Southern Wednesday announced that Francisco Javier Ri"n was appointed chief executive of

Norfolk Southern said its second quarter net income will get a $95 million boost from Ohio tax legis

Canadian National Railway and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) finalized the last of eight co

Kansas City Southern is lagging well behind its larger Class 1 rivals in 2005 in key performance

Less than a month after registration began, more than 1,000 port users signed up for OffPeak, a new

The Federal Railroad Administration awarded University of California at San Diego $237,794 to develo

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are fine-tuning their track maintenance plans after two coal

Norfolk Southern is getting out of rail-trailer management, but a recent purchase by one of its subs

Norfolk Southern is getting out of rail trailer management, but a recent purchase by one of its subs

Duke Power last week said it reached a settlement with CSX Transportation to resolve a 2001 railroad

Railroads will have to "harden" their trains' event recorders and collect more operating data from l

Federal lawmakers are turning up the heat on rail carriers, shippers and the Department of Homeland

The Federal Railroad Administration granted $6.4 million to a research group that plans to field tes

The first so-called "small-case" rate complaint was resolved in a little over a month after it was f

Lawmakers not only want to keep hazardous materials away from high-profile cities, they also want to

The Federal Railroad Administration approved new intermodal technology that links containers and the

Hub Group's dismal financial track record of late isn't an indication of the 3PL's ability to take a

Norfolk Southern hopes making it easier for local train operators to recognize the benefits of match

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober asked as of June 16 the seven largest railroads an

SAN FRANCISCO -- BNSF Railway has geared up for another year of double-digit growth in intermodal tr

U.S. railroads continued to increase traffic during the week ending June 4 despite a day off for Mem

Minnesota lawmakers are pushing legislation that would relax truck weight limits to provide transpor

A government report concluded that while market forces helped the rail industry avoid a peak season

The National Industrial Transportation League's decision to remain neutral on rail competition legis

Poor track caused one of Union Pacific Railroad's derailments last year, the National Transportation

House and Senate negotiators began meeting last week to play the last inning of the latest transport

FreightCar America on Thursday officially opened a freight-car manufacturing facility in Roanoke, Va

A short piece of track built to stage trains waiting to load bulk commodities onto ships at Canada's

Canada and the United States see the role of carriers differently when addressing capacity and compe