Rail News

Iowa Interstate Railroad announced plans to build a locomotive servicing facility on a 62-acre site just west of Homestead, Iowa.

In a landmark regulatory action, the Surface Transportation Board voted 2-1 to fine Canadian National Railway Company $250,000 for "knowingly violating board orders" in under-reporting how often train

Canadian National Railway is now operating a bit more efficiently around the Chicago rail network that is the nation's most congested track area, after completing a $5 million connection to its Elgin,

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Boa

Norfolk Southern Railway and Virginia Gov.

The seven largest freight railroads mildly increased their net hiring in November even as the overall U.S. jobless rate increased, the Surface Transportation Board reported.

Winter may be chilling overall freight traffic, especially as the push toward Christmas retail sales winds down, but there’s plenty of strength left in rail shipments.

BNSF Railway says shifting cross-border train inspections from its “rudimentary” facilities inside Texas to better sites in Mexico would reduce congestion as well as “risk in the wor

For several years, the $35 billion loan pool known as the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program has sat largely unused despite pleas by small railroads to make its credit more avai

The ports of Baltimore and Virginia hunger for the cargo that moves through the Port of New York and New Jersey to and from points beyond the densely populated region around the East Coast’s big

After almost a year of negotiation, a new accord between the Department of Transportation and the Ohio Rail Development Commission clears the way for eastern railroad CSX Transportation to use a $98 m

Double-stack trains will begin rolling next week along the new Commonwealth Railway Mainline, a secure, dual-purpose rail corridor that eliminates 14 at-grade crossings in Virginia.

The Department of Transportation paid out $23.63 billion through Dec. 3 to reimburse states for stimulus projects to improve their road, airport, rail or transit infrastructure.

Transportation analyst John Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus is downgrading his stock ratings of three major intermodal companies, to 'hold' from 'buy,' citing their current valuations and the potential for

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood didn’t even wait for incoming governors of Wisconsin and Ohio to be sworn in.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will implement an infrastructure fee on all cargo to pay for intermodal rail and road infrastructure and security.

Just as he threatened, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood began redirecting $1.195 billion away from passenger rail projects rejected by governors-elect in Wisconsin and Ohio, and said those stimulus

On Dec.

With rail freight demand slowing, railcar owners last month pulled fewer cars out of storage than at any time this year, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Germany's Deutsche Bahn signed an agreement with Beijing to develop China's rail freight transport and supervise the construction of high-speed rail lines.

Slumping home sales are dragging down volume for ocean and surface transportation carriers that rely on housing for shipments ranging from lumber to lounge chairs.

From his office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dennis Miller waits for word from officials in that state and neighboring Illinois on when his regional railroad may begin engineering on construction projects t

Shipping and aviation were high on the agenda of the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun as environment ministers, policymakers and regulators from around the world invaded the Mexican

Strength in several raw material categories for the week ending Nov.

Intercontainer-Interfrigo, Europe's largest intermodal transport company, appointed lawyers to carry out the process of liquidation.

A new implementing accord for a $12.9 million grant, just signed by the U.S.

Effective Dec.

The Senate Tuesday morning passed by a 73-25 vote a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration added authority to keep contaminated food out of the food chain.

BNSF Railway and Illinois have reached a preliminary agreement on how to spend $45 million in state funds to upgrade the rail network at Galesburg, Ill., to help passenger and freight trains operate e

The Surface Transportation Board delayed for 60 days starting a major review of its cargo exemption rules, citing a request from the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.

As the effort to reshape federal rules on railroads’ rate-setting power shifts to the Surface Transportation Board, it is becoming clear that nothing will change quickly.

Supermarkets and shopping malls don’t have rail sidings, truckers love to point out, but the intermodal industry is moving steadily closer to the store floor.

Major North American railroads hauled the most intermodal equipment in a month during the week ending Nov. 20.

Department of Transportation spending, under the 2009 economic stimulus law, reached $22.65 billion as of Nov.

New equipment orders from lessors, railroads and shippers are giving railcar suppliers reason to celebrate for the first time since the Great Recession settled in two years ago.

The Federal Railroad Administration is spreading around $50 million in grants to help railroads develop their collision avoidance technologies known as positive train control, with the largest awards

Just three of the seven largest railroads operating in the U.S. added workers in the mid-September to mid-October period, for a net increase of 191 employees in the Class I work force.

Freight volume for U.S. railroads accelerated in the week ending Nov.

Locomotive conductors for Canadian National Railway and other rail workers in Canada who are part of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference ratified four collective agreements that ended a tense set of

U.S. factory output rose 0.5 percent in October, led by increased output of autos, appliances and business equipment.