Rail News

A collision of three CSX Transportation trains caused a massive chemical fire and possible hazardous chemical spill Friday afternoon in northwest Indiana, according to published reports.

International container business has been a key element in the development of the North American rail intermodal transportation market for decades.

Three unions representing railroad workers this week ratified contracts with major U.S.

Stronger than expected job gains in transportation and manufacturing helped reduce the U.S.

Rising rail freight and equipment demand sent revenue soaring at railcar and barge maker Greenbrier in the last quarter, strengthening the company’s profits.

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Short line and regional freight railroad holding company Patriot Rail Corp. has announced a restructuring of its operations management team, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Stifel Nicolaus downgraded the stock of Union Pacific from “buy” to “hold” Tuesday despite the investment research firm forecasting higher earnings for the rail giant.

GE Transportation acquired rail industry software developer RMI from The Carlyle Group, expanding its transportation software and optimization business.

Florida East Coast Railway plans to expand the reach of its intermodal business in 2012, adding a second drayage “relay” station in Georgia and strengthening its partnerships with large U.

Intermodal volume for major U.S. railroads soared 22.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Dec.

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Local and state governments seeking a piece of the $500 million in TIGER grants available next year would be wise to pitch projects relating to intermodal rail.

With freight rail efficiency pretty much at its limits in stacking containers vertically, railroads increasingly are looking for improvements in the other direction.

CSX Transportation said it will start on-dock rail service at the Virginia Port Authority's APM Terminal in Portsmouth on Jan. 3.

OOCL and Canadian National Railroad this became the first two carriers of their respective industries to share their manifest data directly with the Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Com

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Canadian Pacific named veteran railroad executives Tony L. Ingram and Edmond L.

Road and bridge projects received nearly half of the $511 million awarded through the Department of Transportation’s third round of TIGER grants, leaving port and rail-related projects with abou

FedEx Freight, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carrier, rolled farther into the black in its mos

The Surface Transportation Board is launching a formal proceeding examining a dispute between the Union Pacific Railroad and chemical c

The Jacksonville Port Authority received $10 million of the $25 million in federal funding it requested to build an intermodal rail terminal.

Canadian Pacific Railway aims to be able to run 11 percent longer trains by 2013 through new and expanded siding in “several key regions.”

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Jimmy Lyons has everything in place for strong growth in containerized exports, except for the containers themselves.

Steve Jobs’ untimely death, as well as the just-released best-seller biography of this genius, has triggered intense national focus on the Apple co-founder and his groundbreaking methods.

Two unions representing railroad workers have reached tentative agreement with major U.S. railroads, averting the immediate threat of a national labor action.

The freight transportation industry is preparing for important trigger dates in 2012 that should convince even the skeptics that there will be no turning back when it comes to greening the supply chai

Shipper and transportation groups are increasing pressure on Congress to avert a potential national rail stoppage, as the deadline for striking an agreement with two unions nears amid the peak holiday

Shipper groups are pressing Congress to step in to avert a potential nationwide strike next week, with one warning the disruption of rail service “during the busy holiday shopping seas

The value of trade using surface transportation between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico rose 13.8 percent in September from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

An Arizona utility will get $63 million in reparations and rate reductions under a Surface Tr

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The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $6.5 million, 6,000-foot extension of the Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, as the

Intermodal container traffic increased 2.6 percent week-to-week and 6.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Nov.

Major U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 8.5 percent year-over-year to $766 million in the third quarter, as the railroad's revenue rose 13 percent despite traffic falling 1.9 percent.

The National Industrial Transportation League will keep pressing for changes to railroad switching rules it calls anti-competitive, despite the Surface Transportation Board’s deferral of a NITL

Short-line rail operator Genesee & Wyoming increased carloads 14.2 percent in October, largely because of acquisitions and higher mineral and stone shipments.