Rail News

Rising floodwaters on the Missouri River have begun disrupting some rail operations, just the latest in a series of weather problems for U.S. railroads in recent weeks.

North American owners of railcars parked 2,855 additional cars during May, expanding the fleet of idled units at a time when bulk rail freight shipments had weakened from earlier in the spring.

Eastern U.S. railroads CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway each planned to hold groundbreaking ceremonies Monday on separate intermodal hub construction projects.

Shippers are bracing for higher transportation costs, even as the economy slows, according to a second-quarter survey of more than 2,000 logistics managers.

A tentative contract between the United Transportation Union and major U.S.

The State Assembly will most likely not address a bill that would classify drayage truck drivers at California ports and intermodal rail yards as employees, although it could be taken up next year.

Freight transportation employment was virtually flat last month while a closely watched survey of non-manufacturing activity showed a sharp drop in import growth.

Union Pacific Railroad will pay $25 million to settle a longstanding dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over lead cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Omaha, Neb.

The Association of American Railroads will have a new person serving as its top lobbyist, as Laurie Knight will take the post of senior vice president of government affairs starting July 25, and repla

The Department of Transportation is working on changes in rail regulations that could save the industry more than $1 billion over the next two decades.

The value of surface transportation trade between the U.S.

U.S. farmers and processors are gearing up for another big year of corn exports — in high-value solid and liquid form.

When Clarence Gooden, chief marketing officer for eastern U.S.

Intermodal rail traffic for U.S.

The seven largest railroads added 935 employees to their U.S. operations from mid-March to mid-April, for a new high since the recovery began in 2009.

Rail products supplier L.B. Foster is in the hunt for a new CEO, as Stan L. Hasselbusch said he will retire from that post effective Dec. 31.

It may not be the worst, but it’s bad enough.

If Congress and the Obama administration are serious about fixing the United States’ aging surface transportation system, and move beyond repairs to true long-term investments, they will have to

Intermodal traffic on U.S.

CSX Transportation said it will invest an additional $160 million over the next several years to complete the National Gateway between the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, bringing the project to the full fu

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected BNSF Railway’s attempt to overturn a 2009 regulatory case decision that the railroad charged unreasonable rates on some coal shipments.

President Obama gave a strong push to a transportation infrastructure program that builds on the 2009 stimulus program to repair roads, re-engineer the rail system and “maintain a world-class lo

Any widespread shutdown of train systems in the aftermath of an attack — even for a few days — would quickly ripple through the U.S.

In the days after the May 1 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, news that al Qaeda, the terrorist group he founded and led, considered an attack on the U.S.

The number of grain barges unloading at New Orleans in recent weeks has dropped 14 percent from average levels for this time of year, the U.S.

Demand for marine containers grew faster in this year’s first quarter than for domestic intermodal containers or trailers, the Intermodal Association of North America said.

Kirby Corp., a major U.S.

Bulk shipper costs are escalating for the second quarter, an industry analyst said, because of heavy flooding on major U.S. rivers.

GE Transportation says it will open a locomotive manufacturing facility in Texas, with production to start next year.

Carload traffic on North America’s largest railroads slipped 1 percent in the most recent week, extending a slide the rails have seen for the past month even as intermodal volume maintains stron

Railcar and barge manufacturer Greenbrier Companies named Mark Eitzen as vice president and general manager of its Gunderson factory in Portland, Ore., the company’s key freight car plant in Nor

Canadian National is spending nearly US$39 million to add tracks and make rail yard improvements on busy lanes in and east of Edmonton, Alberta, that handle rail traffic for Canada and the U.S.

April loadings of bulk commodities and other cargoes aboard large freight cars declined in April for major U.S. railroads, which could suggest some weakness in economic momentum.

North American railcars owners reduced their number of idled or stored units by 7,421 in April to 276,228, the lowest since cars in storage peaked at more than 500,000 in June and July 2009.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, unveiling a shift in strategy for allocating federal rail spending, sent $2 billion on Monday to passenger networks around the country after Florida had rejected t

BNSF Railway posted a $607 million profit for the first quarter, up 20 percent from the same period in 2010 and reflecting a mix of higher freight traffic, fuel fees and pricing.

If the Surface Transportation Board is inclined to impose new competition and shipper access rules on U.S. railroads, the Obama administration appears to be OK with it.

If there’s been one reliable trend in recent years, through recession years and growth, it’s that rail rates keep rising.

Trinity Industries is getting a needed boost from improving rail business, but the improvement in the transport equipment manufacturer’s financial picture this year goes beyond the railroads.

Amid much hoopla and celebration last April, a handful of 53-foot refrigerated containers left the Port of Quincy, Wash., on a BNSF Railway stacktrain to Chicago.