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The Association of American Railroads quickly pushed back Thursday against the Chlorine Institute after the chemical shippers’ group urged regulators to fix a “faulty” study over the

Recovery is spreading solidly among North America’s regional and short line railroads, as the latest RMI RailConnect index shows week-to-week traffic mildly higher for the second week of March b

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The Chlorine Institute, fearing freight railroads could pass along potentially large costs for new crash-avoidance technology to shippers, is asking the Federal Railroad Administration to fix what it

Portec Rail Products, whose offerings range from track spikes to data management, saw fourth-quarter earnings fall 4.8 percent from a year earlier to $1.44 million.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec bought the signal engineering and design services firm Xorail for $40 million in cash, equal to about one year’s worth of Xorail sales.

Several months of congressional skirmishing and one large flare-up over funding tried the nerves of the most steadfast advocates for transportation reform.

With February’s snowbanks melting away and the economy warming up, the flow of rail freight is thawing out across North America.

Thirteen shipper groups, hoping the Senate will keep a rail competition bill alive in the face of sharp criticism by top carriers, told lawmakers they want to see it through.

North Carolina awarded a $14.3 million contract to a Kentucky company to build a 5.6-mile rail spur to connect an aircraft parts manufacturing site to the Port of Morehead City.

North America’s regional and short line railroads are steadily adding traffic and setting new highs almost weekly in their recent volume levels.

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U.S. freight railroad operations had their safest year ever in 2009, said the Association of American Railroads.

Norfolk Southern Railway will pay a $4 million penalty to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations, the government said, in connection with a catastrophic 2005 chlorine spill from a train accident in

Kansas City Southern bought the Puerta Mexico intermodal terminal facility about 40 miles west of Mexico City at Toluca, and plans soon to start running trains to it from the Pacific Ocean container p

Small railroads across North America are seeing their new freight loadings reach the highest levels in nearly a year, fueled by demand for a broad range of cargoes.

At a time when there is a huge oversupply of idled freight railcars and ocean ships, Canada’s Nova Scotia provincial government is drawing from those industries to aim at another that has growin

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation say customers will get the most out of their new UMAX domestic intermodal service in the form of faster, more efficient service across the country.

New loadings of the type of bulk materials and equipment that ride in regular railcars pushed to its highest level in more than a year for major U.S.-owned railroads.

Edward Rodzwicz, who had been national president until Nov.

American Railcar Industries managed to boost its profit in the fourth quarter, to $10.5 million from $7.6 million a year earlier, but it wasn’t from building freight cars.

The House is expected to take up the Senate’s version of a jobs bill on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

Competition between West and East Coast ports for Asian cargo has hit a point of equilibrium and market share probably won't change much in the coming years.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services gave a “BBB” rating to new CSX long-term debt notes, saying the eastern-U.S.

All states met a key deadline in last year’s stimulus law to obligate their highway project spending before March 2, said Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Charging that “political games” are forcing a partial shutdown of federal operations and support to states, U.S.

The confidence across Canada hardly ends with this year’s Winter Olympics.

The Obama administration is making big down payments on a wide range of major freight projects around the country with its latest $1.5 billion in transportation grants.

Rail freight shippers and the largest U.S. railroads are increasingly on a collision course over rules that could govern their market for decades to come.

Freight traffic for major U.S.-owned railroads improved after two storm-stunted weeks, but remained below the pace of the last half of January.

Norfolk Southern Railway hopes to begin construction by July on new intermodal terminals in Memphis, Tenn., and Birmingham, Ala., now that it has a large stimulus grant to help pay for them.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told short line railroad officials the Senate will act on legislation next week that includes a renewal of an expired tax credit for track repairs for small railroads

CSX Transportation in the eastern United States and Union Pacific Railroad in the West will soon be jointly marketing a domestic intermodal service in jumbo-sized containers.

The seven largest U.S. railroads shed 1,116 jobs in January, bringing their total workforce to a new low of 145,609 positions.

BNSF’s top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum

Call it a lost week for a major slice of the U.S. economy and transportation network.

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The North American intermodal business is developing a split personality.

As soon as BNSF Railway’s shareholders approved the planned takeover by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Feb. 11, the railroad’s CEO began to fire away at Wall Street.

North American short line railroads carried some of the strongest traffic levels in months even during storm-tossed February, as cargo loadings were consistent with a spreading recovery in the broader