North-American rail

Short line operator RailAmerica is buying the assets of three small freight railroads in Alabama for a total price of $12.7 million in cash.

Railcar owners across the U.S., Canada and Mexico took 22,667 cars of various types out of storage during March, shrinking the idled fleet to 18.7 percent of the total as freight traffic continues to

CN acquired more than 1,000 new containers, which the railroad expects to use to serve manufacturers and distributors of grocery and consumer goods in domestic markets across Canada.

Washington state and federal officials reached agreement to formally obligate another $145 million to that state's passenger rail program.

A $3.3 million federal grant to build 2 miles of track in upstate New York will ease “significant congestion” for a freight rail yard and Amtrak passenger service, said the Department of Transportatio

The latest week's bulk and large-unit railcar loadings at major U.S. freight railroads were the highest since late 2008, or before the traffic plunge that followed the financial collapse that year.

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies almost broke even in its fiscal second quarter ending Feb.

The Federal Railroad Administration's permanent ban on use of electronic devices, including cellphones, became effective March 28, as

The Obama administration's embattled passenger rail program got a solid line of endorsements this week, when applications poured in seeking $10 billion in grants for 90 track projects, most of which w

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Savage Companies and Kansas City Southern have entered into a joint development agreement as the companies look to take advantage of dev

Union Pacific brought out a rarely used rotary snowplow to clear away heavy snow which halted train traffic across California's Donner Pass for five days in March.

A major rail corridor project in Illinois gets under way this weekend, as crews begin the biggest upgrade of tracks in a route owned by Union Pacific Railroad so that 110-mph Amtrak passenger trains c

Canadian National Railway sold a section of track in and around Toronto to the Ontario agency Metrolinx for about $308 million.

Canadian Pacific Railway unveiled a plan to spend nearly $103 million in its North Dakota network this year and next, and said it should aid several big commodity cargo groups there.

Citing severe winter weather and a lag in fuel surcharges catching up with a surge in diesel prices, Cana

North Carolina and Norfolk Southern Railway struck an accord on how to spend $461 million in federal grant funds that will improve both freight and inter-city passenger rail service in a key part of t

Norfolk Southern Railway will record expenses of at least $58 million linked to its deadly 2005 Graniteville, S.C., train derailment, after the carrier received an unfavorable insurance claim ruling.

A Canadian government plan to legislate new freight rail rules triggered complaints by the country’s two major railroads, while shippers hailed the results of a federal review of rail service.

The seven largest freight railroads added a combined 1,198 workers to their U.S.

New Mexico’s legislature could be poised to exempt Union Pacific Railroad from a locomotive sales tax, to entice UP to build a major intermodal and multi-purpose rail facility just inside the state bo

U.S. freight rail lines in 2010 completed their safest year on record by several measures, said the Association of American Railroads based on preliminary government data.

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Railcar manufacturer Trinity Industries and equipment leasing firm GATX agreed on terms for Trinity to supply GATX with 12,500 railroad tank cars and other freight car types over five years.

CSX Transportation set new export coal rates as of April 1 that are higher than expected, said an industry research firm, in a short-term tariff that could permit more rate hikes in the third quarter.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making available $2.4 billion in passenger rail grant money rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott so that other states can submit applications for new projects.

Container volumes moving through the Panama Canal will certainly increase when the canal is enlarged in 2014, but that does not necessarily mean West Coast ports will lose market share simply because

Ann Begeman, President Obama's choice to join the Surface Transportation Board, told senators at her nomination hearing she will work toward making sure shippers as well as railroads can approach the

The largest U.S. railroads will spend an estimated $12 billion on capital improvements this year, easily outpacing the record capital expenditures of $10.7 billion they made in 2010.

The Federal Railroad Administration, in a legal settlement with the Association of American Railroads, agreed to issue new regulations that could scale back the amount of Class I rail track that must

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, is redesigning a federal loan request with an eye to the Obama administration’s focus on making rail lo

Petroleum provides only a little more than 6 percent of the carload traffic for Canada’s two Class I railroads, but the carriers say energy may offer a bright future.

The future of Canada’s Class I railroads is tied inextricably to trade with the Asia-Pacific region, and the freight moving to and from the U.S.

The Surface Transportation Board says NSF Railway’s method for limiting a shipper’s coal dust dispersion on its tracks is “not reasonable” but is leaving the door open for rail

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen.

A new agreement signed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, BNSF Railway and Amtrak clears the way to spend $590 million of a federal grant to upgrade freight tracks for expanded pass

Canadian Pacific and the Montreal Port Authority on Friday signed a collaborative agreement that sets standards for performance and productivity across their joint supply chains.

President Obama this week named BNSF Railways' Chairman and CEO Matthew K.

In a 7-2 ruling that could affect how states levy taxes on inland transportation carriers, the U.S.

CSX Transportation began operating its large, new intermodal terminal at North Baltimore, Ohio, which will be the western anchor of its National Gateway doublestack corridor.