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Norfolk Southern Railway is tapping Axion Power International to develop a battery management system for the all-electric yard locomotive it unveiled last year.

The Department of Transportation paid out more than $13 billion to reimburse states for work done under last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose for the third consecutive month in April, climbing 0.3 percent from March, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

Owners of railcars across North America pulled only 747 cars of all types out of storage and activated them for revenue service during May, a time when intermodal volume was still surging but many car

Intermodal volume at the largest U.S.-owned railroads surged in May at its faster year-over-year pace ever, reflecting both strength in rail-truck combination hauls and how weak traffic was in May 200

Trucking employment last month grew at its fastest pace since it began to recover in March, and that mode led a broad gain in May that extended across all freight transportation modes.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

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Demand for future rail capacity appears to be as clear as mud.

Pacer International, in the second round of major management changes in the last three months, announced new executive changes as the intermodal and logistics services provider transforms from primari

Canadian Pacific Railway says it may gain as much as $960 million in new business in the next five years and expects to realize significant cost savings through improved productivity, according to ana

A preliminary list of 100 significant North American infrastructure projects identifies $400 billion in projects called critical to long-term economic competitiveness.

Paul T. Sorrow is retiring July 1 as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, clearing the way for First Vice President Dennis R.

The U.S. operations of all seven top-tier North American railroads expanded their workforce in April, the first time that has happened since rail employment bottomed in January.

The Port of Vancouver and Canadian National Railroad announced a supply chain collaboration agreement that is designed to enhance the gateway’s competitiveness for North American exports as well

The president of paper and packaging giant MeadWestvaco is telling other shippers and rail transportation providers that his company expects “prolonged economic softness” rather than a rob

The operator of the Chunnel between Britain and France is acquiring the UK’s third largest rail freight operator in a bid to boost its cargo traffic between the two countries.

Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is buying Electro-Motive Diesel, one of North America’s two major builders of line-haul freight locomotives, from its private equity fund owners for $820

The value of cross-border road, rail and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S.

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The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage months ago by the Commerce, Science and Transportation

Florida East Coast Railway said James R. Hertwig will become president of that carrier starting July 1, after he leaves his current position as president of CSX Intermodal.

Barge and railcar builder Greenbrier is slowing barge output by adopting a four-day workweek for its Gunderson marine operations in Portland, Ore., citing market uncertainty from the Gulf oil spill an

With public budgets stretched thin, governments should be doing more to encourage private investment in needed infrastructure, the CEO of Neptune Orient Lines told an international panel of transport

Five states received nearly $80 million in federal grants for high-speed rail projects today from the Department of Transportation.

The U.S. Export-Bank is backing a $1.7 million loan for railroad equipment supplier Holland L.P. to sell two in-track welding systems to a customer in Brazil.

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CSX Transportation is finally reopening for overnight service a 200-mile Tennessee rail line between Nashville and Memphis, which had been closed since severe storms at the start of May and caused CSX

The global economic crisis reduced greenhouse gas emissions from transportation industry sources worldwide, but that reduction isn’t expected to last long.

Canadian Pacific Railway is raising by about $66 million the amount it plans to spend on capital improvements this year, for a new spending program that ranges between $708 million and $756 million.

When it takes over operation of APM Terminals’ automated container terminal in Portsmouth this summer, the Virginia Port Authority will position itself to become one of the nation’s bigges

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, is helping lead a charge among Canadian ports and shippers frustrated by a lack of competition they say leaves them with inadequate intermodal rail service.

CSX Transportation is promoting William Clement as president of its intermodal unit on the retirement of longtime executive James R. Hertwig, the company said Friday.

APL, the world’s fourth-largest container line, is looking to invest in China’s intermodal rail network as Beijing focuses economic development on industrial plants in the country’s

A spike in containerized shipments lifted rail intermodal volume at mid-May, but major North American railroads and short lines are seeing traffic flatten for many cargoes in the bulk carload categori

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

A rail customers’ rally, held at the outset of a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, was one part reunion and one part backslapping celebration as shippers and their advocates reveled in what they

Intermodal marketing companies tilted their traffic share much more toward rail-truck combination moves in the first quarter and away from all-highway loads, according to the Intermodal Association of

The CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway told investors that railroads are fighting a group of “cynical and short-sighted” shippers who are pursuing a new federal regulatory bill that jeopardiz