Rail News

On Dec.

With rail freight demand slowing, railcar owners last month pulled fewer cars out of storage than at any time this year, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Germany's Deutsche Bahn signed an agreement with Beijing to develop China's rail freight transport and supervise the construction of high-speed rail lines.

Slumping home sales are dragging down volume for ocean and surface transportation carriers that rely on housing for shipments ranging from lumber to lounge chairs.

From his office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dennis Miller waits for word from officials in that state and neighboring Illinois on when his regional railroad may begin engineering on construction projects t

Shipping and aviation were high on the agenda of the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun as environment ministers, policymakers and regulators from around the world invaded the Mexican

Strength in several raw material categories for the week ending Nov.

Intercontainer-Interfrigo, Europe's largest intermodal transport company, appointed lawyers to carry out the process of liquidation.

A new implementing accord for a $12.9 million grant, just signed by the U.S.

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The Senate Tuesday morning passed by a 73-25 vote a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration added authority to keep contaminated food out of the food chain.

BNSF Railway and Illinois have reached a preliminary agreement on how to spend $45 million in state funds to upgrade the rail network at Galesburg, Ill., to help passenger and freight trains operate e

The Surface Transportation Board delayed for 60 days starting a major review of its cargo exemption rules, citing a request from the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.

Supermarkets and shopping malls don’t have rail sidings, truckers love to point out, but the intermodal industry is moving steadily closer to the store floor.

As the effort to reshape federal rules on railroads’ rate-setting power shifts to the Surface Transportation Board, it is becoming clear that nothing will change quickly.

Major North American railroads hauled the most intermodal equipment in a month during the week ending Nov. 20.

Department of Transportation spending, under the 2009 economic stimulus law, reached $22.65 billion as of Nov.

New equipment orders from lessors, railroads and shippers are giving railcar suppliers reason to celebrate for the first time since the Great Recession settled in two years ago.

The Federal Railroad Administration is spreading around $50 million in grants to help railroads develop their collision avoidance technologies known as positive train control, with the largest awards

Just three of the seven largest railroads operating in the U.S. added workers in the mid-September to mid-October period, for a net increase of 191 employees in the Class I work force.

Freight volume for U.S. railroads accelerated in the week ending Nov.

Locomotive conductors for Canadian National Railway and other rail workers in Canada who are part of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference ratified four collective agreements that ended a tense set of

U.S. factory output rose 0.5 percent in October, led by increased output of autos, appliances and business equipment.

Major North American railroads in recent weeks saw a slowdown in their loadings of some cargoes important to the factory sector.

So much for the Democrats’ transportation plans.

House Republicans did not wait for the Nov. 2 election to lay down markers for how they may change federal spending under the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas in the intermodal business.

In a sign of growing strength in rail freight demand, North American railcar leasing firms and other car owners pulled 12,799 more railcars out of storage in October, said the Association of American

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the governors-elect of Wisconsin and Ohio they cannot redirect federal passenger rail grants to other uses once they take office, so the Department of Transpor

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies earned a $7.7 million net profit in its fiscal fourth quarter that ended Aug.

BNSF Railway presented achievement awards to three shortline railroads at the annual Shortline conference in Grapevine, Texas.

Wisconsin’s Republican governor-elect, Scott Walker, campaigned and won on a pledge to kill a planned Madison-Milwaukee passenger rail line that drew a large federal grant.

Union Pacific Railroad tentatively plans to increase its capital spending on network repairs and growth projects 25 percent in 2011 to $3.25 billion, company officials said.

BNSF Railway's net income in the third quarter rose 44.7 percent from a year earlier to $706 million, as revenue rose 22.1 percent to $4.391 billion.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

This year's unexpectedly strong peak season for intermodal traffic suggests that shippers are getting ready for lots of packages under the Christmas tree, according to the Intermodal Association of No

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

Union Pacific Railroad expects growing volume, higher rates and new pricing on expiring contracts with shippers to push annual revenue up 6 to 8 percent per year over the next five years, Chief Financ