North-American rail

The ocean port at Everett, Wash., will build a rail spur to expand its freight train operations, largely paid with federal funds for disaster preparations.

The three-member Surface Transportation Board now has Francis P. Mulvey serving as its vice chairman, under an annual rotation. He replaces Charles D. Nottingham in that role.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s large coal loading port terminal is back to normal at Norfolk, Va., and the railroad on Jan. 5 lifted its “force majeure” declaration on coal moves.

The Intermodal Association of North America has named industry leaders Stephen Branscum of BNSF Railway and David Howland of Schneider National as chairman and vice chairman for 2010.

Buffeted by a major winter storm that socked much of the Appalachian coal mining region in the week of Christmas, major U.S.

Chicago’s multi-layered plan to revamp rail connections in the city and region just checked its $13.1 million McCook Connection off its list, improving links between several freight carriers and

The Lamberts Point Coal Terminal, the big Virginia coastal site where Norfolk Southern Railway trains deliver Appalachian coal that can be loaded onto ships for export, should have the first of its tw

Norfolk Southern Railway is telling customers it is keeping in place a “force majeure” declaration for coal deliveries, after absorbing damage to its big ocean terminal for coal loadings o

The U.S. lines of the seven Class I freight railroads cut 1,923 jobs in the month to mid-November, leaving their combined workforce at a new low of 147,097.

The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service.

In a week when many cargoes were down as a heavy winter storm blew across the Midwest, major U.S. railroads had their strongest loadings of scrap materials in three weeks.

The major lobbying group for the railroad industry said it has “concerns” about pending legislation to beef up the Surface Transportation Board and order major changes in federal regulatio

Florida will pay CSX Transportation $432 million for a 61-mile track segment after Gov. Charlie Crist on Dec. 16 signed into law a measure to boost passenger rail operations.

Ethanol terminal operator U.S. Development Group said its West Colton Rail Terminal at Rialto, Calif., has started handling ethanol railcars from Union Pacific Railroad.

Freight services provider Pacer International said Tuesday Chairman and CEO Michael E. Uremovich is leaving the company immediately and will be replaced by Daniel W.

Union Pacific Railroad packed more unit trains of agricultural products in November than ever in its history, with 400 all-crop trains topping the previous high of 381 in October 2006.

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an ac

Major U.S. railroads posted their highest new loadings of chemical cargoes in 2009 during the week ending Dec. 5, a signal of stirring industrial demand.

Railroads and their customers are getting their first look at a long-awaited bill that would overhaul federal regulations governing shippers’ access to competitive service and how their disputes

The $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment firm cleared a key antitrust review process.

Big U.S. railroads reached a new milestone even as the Thanksgiving holiday trimmed their work week, with bulk carloads showing the smallest decline so far this year from 2008 levels.

Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec.

OTTAWA --- Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters union representing 1,700 striking Canadian locomotive engineers reached a contract agreement today just as Parliament was preparing to force them

Although ships are keeping their schedules at the Port of Halifax, N.S., the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway is affecting railcar supply and some marine operations.

The Port of Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s remote northern coast, although tied to the U.S.

The Canadian Industrial Transportation Association warned that the strike by train engineers against Canadian National Railway could derail the economy, and urged members of Parliament to unite around

Canadian National Railway is asking customers to help it line up their freight for easier train pickup by taking steps to curb railcar switching by CN while its locomotive engineers are on strike.

Port operations at Halifax, N.S., are feeling the impact of a locomotive engineers strike against Canadian National Railway.

Shippers in Canada are diverting some cargo away from Vancouver to U.S ports, as ripple effects spread from the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway.

Canada’s top West Coast port is warning the government and industry that the new strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway could leave lasting damage.

Canadian Pacific teamed up with the Canadian government’s Natural Resources ministry to test the use of biodiesel fuel, in what CP says will be “the first time biodiesel will be used in Ca

David A. Brown will become the chief operating officer at eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation when Tony Ingram retires from that post Dec. 31.

Canada’s labor minister plans to offer legislation to force an end to the two-day-old strike against Canadian National Railway by locomotive engineers.

Locomotive engineers in Canada launched a strike against Canadian National Railway early Nov.

Canadian National Railway could face a strike by locomotive engineers for its Canadian operations as early as Nov.

Members of two Senate committees are still working on details of how much to curb a limited antitrust immunity freight railroads now enjoy.

Railroads just got something extra to appreciate in the week before the two-day Thanksgiving holiday period, with the week ending Nov.

Union Pacific Railroad began running double-stacked container trains over the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range after a 12-month construction project to carve out bigger tunnel clearance

BNSF Railway implemented a “permit embargo” to control movement of export grain shipments to backed-up seaports in the Pacific Northwest, after heavy rains slowed ship loadings.

Locomotive engineers for Canadian National Railway are getting a small raise and work-rule change they did not bargain for, after talks between the two collapsed.