North-American rail

The stock prices of several major railroads and railcar suppliers tumbled substantially more than the overall market did on Wednesday, after two big coal producers announced plans to cut back.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. plans to ask the agency at its Oct.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released $82.7 million for track and signal improvements in New England, across a region where freight and passenger lines often share the same corridor.

The seven largest railroads added a combined 1,191 workers to their U.S.

There’s no sign in rail freight trends that the U.S. economy may be tumbling into another recession.

Railcar manufacturer Greenbrier and American Railcar Industries continue to see strong demand to build new units, in what they say is an equipment market cycle that should keep growing for several yea

The rail freight market has strengthened further in the first two weeks of September for Kansas City Southern, after a strong August performance, said the company’s chief financial officer.

Port and freight rail projects for short lines in Maryland, California, Connecticut and Florida were among eight grant winners for $19.4 million from the Department of Transportation’s rail relo

Owners of railcars across North America pulled 5,539 units of various types out of storage during August, shrinking the idled fleet to its lowest level since the 2008-2009 recession.

Union Pacific Railway said international intermodal volume has been recently weak, but customers expect to compress the peak season for boxed loads into September and October.

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North America’s rail networks began September trying to dry out.

It’s a tale of two railroads, both operating through some of the worst of times in terms of nature’s wrath, but coming through in vastly different shape.

Tropical Storm Lee has spread flooding up the mid-Atlantic region and into the Northeast, disrupting freight rail operations in several states, after swamping track operations around the Gulf of Mexic

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Bulk freight shipments on major North American railroads rose 1.4 percent last week to the highest level since April 2, with gains across a wide range of cargoes.

ILWU protestors clash with police near a controversial grain terminal in Longview, Wash.

A cooling-off period that starts today could soon lead to presidential intervention in contract disputes between 11 national rail unions and the largest U.S.

Hurricane Irene cost the CSX about $10 million to $15 million in damage and lost business but the railroad expects to make up some of the losses, an executive said.

Wal-Mart is “guardedly optimistic” about the rest of 2011 but sees a trend toward a “flatter” peak season for holiday shipments, said Kelly Abney, the retailer’s vice pre

Rail service has slipped because of bad weather and cost-cutting that have left railroads without enough train crews to operate trains or switch railcars frequently, shippers told an investment bank c

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union vowed to maintain its pickets at a newly built grain terminal in Longview, Wash., despite a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tac

BNSF Railway Chairman and CEO Matt Rose believes the best way to get U.S.

Class 8 truck orders rebounded in August, despite dire predictions for the U.S. economy, according to preliminary figures from two research groups.

The freight rail industry is fighting a regulation that allows the federal government to fine Class I carriers if Amtrak-provided data shows the railroads caused delays in passenger service.

The Department of Transportation is finally prepared to release $34 million in grant funds it announced last October, so that freight rail giants BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad can proceed on

Short line and regional railroads saw total shipments rise 3.4 percent in the final week of August, with gains across various cargoes linked to industrial demand.

Major North American railroads saw their carloadings of automobiles and other large equipment rise 5.3 percent last week, to the strongest weekly vehicle shipments since early last spring.

APL Logistics said it is outperforming the U.S. intermodal market since its reentry into the business last year after a decade-long absence.

CSX will spend $59 million to expand its intermodal terminal in Columbus, Ohio, leveraging its new terminal to the north and part of its $850 million initiative to better connect East Coast ports with

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

BSNF Railway will reopen an important flooded out track segment across the Missouri River on Sept. 3, five days earlier than planned.

Bulk carload traffic at major North American railroads rose 2.8 percent in week ending Aug. 20 from a week earlier, setting a new volume peak for 2011.

Major railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico picked up 1.3 percent more intermodal containers and trailers last week than the week previous, for their second-highest total of 2011.

The grain crop marketing year that ended July 31 was one of the strongest on record for Canadian National Railway’s export volume to the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

Four small railroads and seven Class I carriers received $7.7 million in security grants from the Department of Homeland, a $6.8 million decrease from the

Freight railroads will have to deploy expensive automation systems on far less track than earlier proposed under a new version of a positive train control requirement issued Tuesday by the Department

Amtrak and the Department of Transportation finalized agreements to spend $745 million to improve on-time passenger rail performance on the Northeast Corridor, a busy track zone often shared with frei

Union Pacific on Friday settled a long-standing argument with Customs and Border Protection over more than $500 million in fines for drug smuggling on its trains coming from Mexico by agreeing to spen