North-American rail

Rail freight shippers waiting for the flood-closed Kansas City Southern lines to reopen in northern Mexico got some welcome news as KCS said it could resume service this weekend over a key bridge and

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Employers at the Port of Montreal locked out the 850 members of the longshore union Monday morning, bringing cargo handling at terminals to a standstill.

Railroads serving the U.S.-Mexico border region are telling customers to expect two more weeks of shipment detours from the hurricane and flood disruptions to rail service through Laredo, Texas, and N

North American railcar leasing fleets, shippers and railroads pulled 3,064 cars out of storage during June but still had 23.7 percent of their freight hauling equipment sitting idle.

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Major eastern-U.S. railroad CSX posted a $414 million profit in the second quarter. That was up 36 percent from the 2009 period, while its $2.663 billion in revenue was up 22 percent.

Rail service between the U.S. and Mexico is resuming after closures because of flood damage caused by Hurricane Alex.

Rail shippers faced with growing ancillary and penalty charges levied by carriers received some relief in Canada from the federal government, which now requires that their complaints to the Canadian T

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

Norfolk Southern Railway’s long-awaited project to carve a double-stack intermodal train corridor through the Appalachian Mountains just got a bit longer, as the company got approval from Ohio t

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expects to quickly nail down some accords with Class I freight railroads, to spur intercity passenger rail development and begin using some of the billions in stimu

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In moves that reflect the improvement Kansas City Southern has been making in its finances, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its rating on long-term KCS debt to BB from B and took the rai

Five days after a 28-car derailment, CSX is prepared to reopen a rail line in Porter County, Ind., according to local news reports.

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

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BNSF Railway will replace its entire bridge over the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, to tap into low construction costs in the recovering economy and a major upgrade of one section that is alre

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and representatives from Class I railroads met Wednesday to discuss building a nationwide high-speed rail network, the secretary said.

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

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

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 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 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.

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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

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.

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.

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