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The Surface Transportation Board will hold a May 3 public hearing to start the first review in over a decade of regulations that some shippers say allow major railroads to hold many freight customers

Freight railroads, shippers and railcar leasing firms across North America pulled 1,539 freight cars out of storage in December, as they prepped more equipment for cargo service in the months ahead.

The Department of Transportation's efforts to lock in remaining funds from the 2009 economic stimulus package have it closing in on the main target -- obligating all $48.1 billion that was allocated i

For Jonathan Gold, 2010 was a year for lessons. For Donna Lemm, 2011 is about hope. And for George Macko, the trucking concerns of today will be with us into 2012.

Union Pacific Railroad expanded its intermodal volume about 20 percent in 2010 from 2009, and did that at a remarkably profitable pace, increasing its revenue per intermodal unit an industry-leading 8

After more than three years of struggle between railroads and disgruntled freight shippers over how to write industrywide rules for disputes over rates and service, both sides face the prospect of let

Railcar and barge manufacturer Greenbrier Companies lost $2.3 million in its fiscal first quarter ending Nov.

North American intermodal and global logistics firm Pacer International picked industry veteran Daniel L.

North America’s major railroads saw intermodal volume rise 14.7 percent in 2010, while their railcar loads of commodities and bulk shipments including automobiles, lumber and chemicals rose 9.4 percen

Private short line operator Patriot Rail completed its acquisition of six small rail lines from paper industry firm Weyerhaeuser, giving the new owner 13 short lines in all.

The Surface Transportation Board is proposing a new regulation that would ensure Amtrak’s intercity passenger train system can keep operating even if an emergency knocks out its normal routes.

The Intermodal Association of North America elected a chairman, vice chair, treasurer and five directors, the board announced Jan. 5.

Intermodal middleman firm Pacer International said it replaced its credit financing arrangements with a new deal that cuts interest rates and fees and shrinks to two from eleven the number of particip

Norfolk Southern Railway on Dec.

Oregon International Port of Coos Bay finalized a transaction with Union Pacific Railroad transferring ownership of 23 miles of the Coos Bay rail line to the port.

The Surface Transportation Board rejected a claim by agricultural shipper Cargill that BNSF Railway was "double-dipping" in how the carrier assessed fuel surcharges, but the STB will let Cargill pursu

Intermodal traffic for U.S.

2010 produced mixed results for the truckload, less-than-truckload and domestic parcel segments of the trucking industry.

The Department of Transportation wrapped up negotiations with Alabama and Tennessee for a $105 million federal stimulus grant to help build intermodal terminals for Norfolk Southern Railway’s Cr

The Department of Transportation signed an implementing agreement for the big Colton Crossing project to use a $33.8 million stimulus

Illinois will see the first few miles of a new 110-mph passenger train service open in the coming year in the freight train corridor owned by Union Pacific Railroad.

State-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India said it will increase its freight charges for the movement of containerized cargo, starting Jan. 20, 2011.

A barrage of tough winter storms that hit large parts of North America with blizzard conditions, ice or dangerous cold temperatures put a dent into rail traffic this month, but not as much as a major

Iowa Interstate Railroad announced plans to build a locomotive servicing facility on a 62-acre site just west of Homestead, Iowa.

In a landmark regulatory action, the Surface Transportation Board voted 2-1 to fine Canadian National Railway Company $250,000 for "knowingly violating board orders" in under-reporting how often train

Canadian National Railway is now operating a bit more efficiently around the Chicago rail network that is the nation's most congested track area, after completing a $5 million connection to its Elgin,

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Boa

Norfolk Southern Railway and Virginia Gov.

The seven largest freight railroads mildly increased their net hiring in November even as the overall U.S. jobless rate increased, the Surface Transportation Board reported.

The ports of Baltimore and Virginia hunger for the cargo that moves through the Port of New York and New Jersey to and from points beyond the densely populated region around the East Coast’s big

Winter may be chilling overall freight traffic, especially as the push toward Christmas retail sales winds down, but there’s plenty of strength left in rail shipments.

BNSF Railway says shifting cross-border train inspections from its “rudimentary” facilities inside Texas to better sites in Mexico would reduce congestion as well as “risk in the wor

For several years, the $35 billion loan pool known as the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program has sat largely unused despite pleas by small railroads to make its credit more avai

After almost a year of negotiation, a new accord between the Department of Transportation and the Ohio Rail Development Commission clears the way for eastern railroad CSX Transportation to use a $98 m

Double-stack trains will begin rolling next week along the new Commonwealth Railway Mainline, a secure, dual-purpose rail corridor that eliminates 14 at-grade crossings in Virginia.

The Department of Transportation paid out $23.63 billion through Dec. 3 to reimburse states for stimulus projects to improve their road, airport, rail or transit infrastructure.

Transportation analyst John Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus is downgrading his stock ratings of three major intermodal companies, to 'hold' from 'buy,' citing their current valuations and the potential for

The Port of New York and New Jersey will implement an infrastructure fee on all cargo to pay for intermodal rail and road infrastructure and security.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood didn’t even wait for incoming governors of Wisconsin and Ohio to be sworn in.

Just as he threatened, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood began redirecting $1.195 billion away from passenger rail projects rejected by governors-elect in Wisconsin and Ohio, and said those stimulus