Rail News

Major North American railroads in recent weeks saw a slowdown in their loadings of some cargoes important to the factory sector.

So much for the Democrats’ transportation plans.

House Republicans did not wait for the Nov. 2 election to lay down markers for how they may change federal spending under the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas in the intermodal business.

In a sign of growing strength in rail freight demand, North American railcar leasing firms and other car owners pulled 12,799 more railcars out of storage in October, said the Association of American

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the governors-elect of Wisconsin and Ohio they cannot redirect federal passenger rail grants to other uses once they take office, so the Department of Transpor

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies earned a $7.7 million net profit in its fiscal fourth quarter that ended Aug.

BNSF Railway presented achievement awards to three shortline railroads at the annual Shortline conference in Grapevine, Texas.

Wisconsin’s Republican governor-elect, Scott Walker, campaigned and won on a pledge to kill a planned Madison-Milwaukee passenger rail line that drew a large federal grant.

Union Pacific Railroad tentatively plans to increase its capital spending on network repairs and growth projects 25 percent in 2011 to $3.25 billion, company officials said.

BNSF Railway's net income in the third quarter rose 44.7 percent from a year earlier to $706 million, as revenue rose 22.1 percent to $4.391 billion.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

This year's unexpectedly strong peak season for intermodal traffic suggests that shippers are getting ready for lots of packages under the Christmas tree, according to the Intermodal Association of No

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

Union Pacific Railroad expects growing volume, higher rates and new pricing on expiring contracts with shippers to push annual revenue up 6 to 8 percent per year over the next five years, Chief Financ

Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray recently joined U.S.

Intermodal traffic rose 20.3 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, driven by a 28.1 percent rise in import-powered international loadings, according to the Intermodal Association of North

Intermodal provider Pacer International saw its third-quarter net income jump 83 percent to $1.1 million while revenue fell, but said it would have done better had not Hurricane Alex disrupted its tra

Canadian National Railway and North America Stevedoring Company, a unit of Quebec Stevedoring, said they will soon build a multi-modal steel trans-loading facility in Chicago, to tap what is already t

Rail equipment supplier FreightCar America wrapped up its acquisition of DTE Rail Services from Detroit-based DTE Energy.

BNSF Railway, splitting its CEO and president roles, promoted Carl Ice to president and chief operating office while keeping Matthew K. Rose in the chairman and CEO positions.

Don’t tuck the peak season away just yet. Two of the biggest partners in U.S. intermodal traffic expect strong growth in demand to extend well into the fall.

The JOC Week in Review for October 29 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 1 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

TransContainer set a price for its forthcoming initial public offering in London that values Russia's largest rail container operator between $1.3 billion and $1.6 billion.

American Railcar Industries had revenue of $64.8 million and a net loss of $6.3 million or 29 cents per share in the third quarter of 2010, the company reported, but ARI is seeing a moderate upturn in

Parts of the U.S.

Trinity Industries, a maker of railcars, barges and highway construction support products, saw net income rise 36 percent in the third quarter to $31.5 million even though revenue shrank 3 percent to

Norfolk Southern Railway’s profit surged 47 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $445 million, as revenue grew faster than expenses.

While a number of planned high-speed passenger rail corridors are still waiting for implementing contracts with freight railroads to use designated federal funds, Union Pacific Railroad CEO James R.

The largest freight railroads said they increased their U.S. employment by 1,386 workers from mid-August to mid-September, to the highest level since April 2009.

Canadian Pacific Railway saw net income fall 5.7 percent to about $191.5 million in the third quarter from a year earlier, but said freight operations are running strong and the 2009 profit had been s

Canadian National Railway’s net income rose 20.6 percent in the July-September quarter from a year earlier to $543 million, as revenue increased 15 percent to $2.072 billion.

CSX Transportation began using the first of two low-emission GenSet switcher locomotives at its Curtis Bay Yard in Baltimore.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I railroads with operations split between U.S.

The still strong domestic intermodal market has Union Pacific Railroad back in the market for new 53-foot, jumbo sized intermodal containers and chassis, on top of a larger order it placed earlier thi

Stimulus spending by the Department of Transportation reached $21.2 billion as of Oct.

CSX Transportation’s robust start to the rail industry’s earnings season points to an autumn freight market that may be stronger than many expected.

North American shippers may be on the verge of a second intermodal revolution.