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America’s freight sector is getting stimulated.

“I wouldn’t have a problem with the federal government helping the freight railroads invest.”

One might think Albert J.

"What he’s really talking about ... is Phase I of the Interstate II idea.”

"You at least have to start with a dual locomotive."

At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff has been thinking about freight railroads.

"If the needs match up, then it will get done."

"It's not a technology leap. It's an incremental move."

Sometimes it takes a whole team of railroads to haul a project cargo.

The U.S.

As efforts continue in Congress to craft a new rail competition bill that shippers and railroads can both accept, a top railroad CEO says the pivotal lawmakers understand the need for rail firms to ea

Another week of unusually tough springtime weather, on top of a still-bad economy, left bulk railcar volume down 20.5 percent in the latest week for major U.S. railroads.

Although the Red River is subsiding in North Dakota so that railroads can start to dig out or mop up from heavy flooding, damage reports are still coming in.

It is a measure of how bad things are in the rail supply market that equipment builder Greenbrier spent much of its latest earnings announcement talking about ways it is guarding its cash position.

A group of 11 shippers dropped their class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers conspired to fix fuel surcharge prices.

California motor carriers are asking the state air quality board to slow down adoption of its proposed low-carbon fuel standard that the industry says could cause the cost of diesel fuel to double.

Ryder System is slashing its first quarter earnings estimates by roughly half due primarily to the beating its fleet management division is taking from the slowing economy.

UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

Trucker YRC Worldwide, announcing a new series of cutbacks and charges in its troubled business, said Tuesday tonnage at its national less-than-truckload declined 29 percent in the first quarter.

As he settles in as the new head of the Surface Transportation Board, the changes that Francis P. Mulvey brings may be more of emphasis than direction.

Third party logistics provider C.H.

The new head of the Surface Transportation Board wants to fix some of the agency's creaky infrastructure.

Debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s took railroad operator Kansas City Southern off its CreditWatch list, after the company’s Mexican subsidiary privately sold $200 million in seven-y

American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves told U.S.

The average retail price of diesel fuel last week rose seven-tenths of a cent to $2.228 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The American Trucking Associations asked the U.S.

BNSF is taking advantage of the slack in freight volume this year to cut time off its intermodal services but saying those improvements will outlast the downturn.

Canadian Pacific Railway temporarily shut down its line that connects the cities of Emerson and Winnipeg, after Red River flooding pushed out of North Dakota and across the Manitoba border into Canada

In many ways, cargo business on the West Coast can be as much about railroad operations as port operations.

The Surface Transportation Board may be on a path toward big changes in the way it oversees railroad rates and service.

Refrigerated trucker Frozen Food Express, which had withstood the economic downturn with growing profits and revenue last year, announced it has cut 150 positions and is taking other actions to reduce

New Class 8 truck orders through March were “dismal,” according to preliminary data from industry analyst FTR Associates.

Norfolk Southern Railway said its train system and industrial development work helped spur more than $2.2 billion in new shipper facilities or expansions last year.

Rep. James L.

Revenue for third-party logistics providers dropped by 6.7 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to a survey by Armstrong & Associates.

Union Pacific Railroad plans to “hold firm” on pricing despite declining demand for rail freight transport, an investment analyst said in a report April 3 after meetings with UP management

If there's a recession out there it's not taking place in the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Downtown San Antonio.

Discussions among congressional staff, rail customers and railroads to craft new competition rules for that industry “are moving along nicely,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Big shippers with plenty of pricing power are favoring third party logistics providers with heavy assets behind their name.

Weather problems flattened traffic overall for the largest U.S. railroads in the week ending March 28, but even so some cargoes linked to economic demand picked up.