Rail News

Federal rail regulators set in motion a process that could end with their reclaiming oversight of railroads' freight service and rate levels on cargoes that are now exempt.

North American rail freight traffic rebounded in the week ending Oct. 16, a period that included the Oct. 11 holiday in the U.S. and Canada.

The 2010 intermodal peak season for western railroad Union Pacific looks like it could continue another two months, said CEO James R. Young.

Western U.S. carrier Union Pacific Railroad posted a 51 percent gain in net income in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $778 million, as revenue increases outpaced expenses.

Norfolk Southern broke ground for the Franklin County regional intermodal facility in Greencastle, Pa., which will form a key part of the Crescent Corridor route between the Gulf Coast and the U.S.

The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is signing up volunteers to test ocean and rail manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment.

The Department of Transportation is “well-positioned” to complete contract talks to launch slow-moving plans for passenger rail construction projects, and none of the 13 targeted projects are in dange

The State of Maine has reached an agreement to purchase 233 miles of track in Aroostook and Penobscot counties from the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the governor’s office announced on Oct.

Intermodal logistics firm Hub Group saw net income soar 28 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $12.6 million, with double-digit sales gains by its three business segments – intermodal,

Net profit for state-owned Container Corporation of India grew by a mere 2 percent in the second quarter to $47 million as earnings plunged in the core export-import segment amid increasing competitio

The lone Republican on the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates most types of economic issues involving railroads and their shippers, said he will not seek reappointment after his term ends D

Vessel operators and railroads will shoulder a larger share of the burden as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seek to achieve ambitious pollution-reduction goals over the next 13 years.

In its push to restructure rail freight shipping in the United States, Washington’s political engine can’t decide what that structure should be.

Deep under the streets of Jersey City, double-stack container trains kick up clouds of rock dust as they roll through a newly enlarged tunnel that CSX Transportation sees as key to its intermodal grow

When the Erie Railroad built the Bergen Tunnel under Jersey City in the 1860s, engineering and construction crews had to blast through three-quarters of a mile of bedrock.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

For-hire transportation carriers in the U.S. domestic market handled 0.6 percent less volume in ton-miles in August than in July, the Transportation Department said.

September was the strongest month since springtime for North American railcar owners shrinking their lists of idle equipment as gains in both carload and intermodal traffic prompted operators to activ

Russia's largest rail container operator, TransContainer, plans to raise up to $525 million from an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange before the end of the year.

CSX Transportation, the eastern U.S.

French Dockworkers Oct. 12 joined a 24-hour nationwide protest, crippling major ports as well as rail and air transport in Europe's second largest economy.

Strong loadings of truck trailers by North American railroads point to continued momentum in the overall intermodal market, which is dominated by stackable containers, says a report from BB&T Capital

Union Pacific Railroad and CenterPoint Properties on Oct. 18 will open the 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal southwest of Chicago.

North America’s major railroads hauled more motor vehicles and other types of large equipment in the last half of September than any other time this year, as volume keeps rising in a key cargo g

Faiveley Transport USA and Amsted Rail early this month finalized their joint venture, Amsted Rail-Faiveley LLC, based in Greenville, South Carolina.

Canadian rail freight shippers, shaken early this month when Canadian National Railway narrowly averted a strike at the height of the peak shipping season, want to make sure such a potentially crippli

In WTO Rulings, It’s China, 2; US, 0

It’s impossible to read the Obama administration’s latest take on freight transportation policy without seeing its clear aim: to put a bigger share of containers and trailers on trains, ge

There’s perishable and then there is really perishable. Rainier cherries, the cream of the cherry crop, are generally put in the second category and given kid-glove treatment during transport.

For importers of holiday merchandise, it was Christmas in August as well as July.

CSX Transportation and New York-New Jersey port officials say the opening of a section of track to trains carrying double-stacked, high-cube containers will increase the railroad's and port's reach in

Canadian National Railway said it is adding railcars and taking other steps to meet supply chain needs of steel producing customers in Canada, the second time in a week that CN has unveiled new effort

Canadian Pacific Railway and Teck Resources, its largest coal shipper, agreed to terms on a 10-year deal for CP to carry Teck’s metallurgical coal to export terminals.

With an increase in chemical tankcar shipments that make up their largest commodity category, North America’s regional and short line railroads set back-to-back 2010 volume peaks in the last two weeks

Intermodal traffic continued nearly at its peak volume of 2010 in the latest week on North America's major freight railroads.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

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A long-running legal challenge to freight rail fuel surcharges by the largest U.S.

President Obama’s push for more and faster intercity passenger rail service has come up hard against the needs of freight railroads that control most of the tracks.