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The railroad industry is urging Congress to block an Obama administration move to permanently allow Maine a

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The top U.S.-owned freight railroads never before hauled as many intermodal containers as they did in the week ending Sept. 18, said the Association of American Railroads.

The Department of Transportation’s push to complete infrastructure stimulus projects led it to pay out $6 billion over the summer to reimburse states for completed work, nearly a third of the amount t

The summer doldrums in freight activity led some major railroads to cut their U.S. employment while others added jobs, so that their overall workforce fell slightly from mid-July to mid-August.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Tuesday he will be working on a bill to create a national infrastructure bank that should be ready by the time the 112th Congress convenes in January 2011.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he is initiating a new regulatory process to ban texting and limit use of mobile devices by commercial truck drivers while hauling hazardous materials.

The shipping surge that benefited many truckers in the second quarter also boosted third-party logistics companies and freight brokers, raising the total dollars they billed 13 percent over the same q

North America’s top freight railroad officials aren’t buying the reported concern that the economy may hit a double-dip back into recession.

Shippers wondering if they can save money by transloading their imports from marine containers into domestic boxes should talk to Josh Owen.

North American short lines originated more intermodal loads in the week ending Sept.

Canadian National Railway inked performance agreements with ocean terminal operators Maher and DP World at the Prince Rupert and Vancouver ports.

A key component of CSX Transportation's northern tier strategy will come into play in early 2011 with the opening of the Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal.

The senator most identified with trying to strip railroads of their limited exemption to antitrust challenges says if a broad rail reform bill stumbles in Congress he will use "any other means possibl

Activist rail shippers who want Congress to toughen freight rail oversight say a new Senate committ

The railroad industry sharply rejected criticisms of railroad finances by a new report from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and warned that efforts to slap new regulations on

The Surface Transportation Board is poised to mount a three-pronged regulatory reform effort that could expand its activism on railroad-shipper disputes and implement some measures that are in the sta

A national rail plan envisioned by the Obama administration must be preceded by shipper-supportive changes in rail competition rules either through a change in law or by regulatory action, said Sen.

The second-highest official at the Department of Transportation told senators that increasing the share of freight hauled by railroads "could be a cost-effective approach to meeting our stated st

A new report by staff of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee says major railroads are financially strong and enjoying "robust" pricing power, but are telling regulators

The Spanish government unveiled a $9.75 billion investment plan to modernize the nation's rail freight network and more than double rail cargo traffic by 2020.

DB Schenker Logistics is investing $87.5 million on the construction of a multi-modal hub and corporate office near Helsinki airport in Finland.

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Two activist rail shipper groups say they see new signs that the Senate could move on long-dormant rail competition legislation in the final months of the current Congress.

From a helicopter over CenterPoint Properties’ 6,000-acre integrated intermodal rail logistics hub at Joliet, Ill., about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, the structure that stands out above all o

New rail regulatory legislation appears dead for this Congress, according to the top executive for Norfolk Southern Railway.

Kansas City Southern carried 700 U.S.-bound containers from Mexico’s Port of Lazaro Cardenas during August and expects volume on the route to continue to grow, a KCS executive said.

A freight railroad official with strong ties to shipping out of Mexico says he is seeing some offshore manufacturing shift back to North America as labor costs rise in China.

North American railcar owners took 10,759 parked freight cars out of storage during August, leaving 348,712 or 22.7 percent of the total continental fleet idled as of Sept. 1.

Canadian Pacific Railway expanded its ability to carry intermodal cars on trains 45 percent over the past two years, a company official says, and expects more gains as part of a plan to add capacity b

North America’s largest railroads saw their bulk commodity carloads hit a second consecutive 2010 peak in the week ending Sept.

After three years of enlarging Appalachian Mountain tunnels, Norfolk Southern Railway opened its Heartland Corridor to double-stack operations Thursday between Virginia's seaport area and big Midwest

U.S. railroads hauled more bulk railcar loads and intermodal containers or trailers in August than any time since the autumn of 2008, said the Association of American Railroads.

Railcar manufacturer FreightCar America signed a definitive agreement to buy the business assets of DTE Rail Services, a railcar repair and management firm, from parent DTE Energy for about $23.2 mill

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

Norfolk Southern Railway has been literally changing the landscape of freight rail transportation in the eastern United States for three years, carving out new clearances through the Appalachian Mount

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority edged one step closer to securing what could be the largest loan ever from a little-used Federal Railroad Administration finance program.

Owners of North America’s rail equipment fleets are betting the thriving intermodal market will maintain its growth pace, placing orders for new equipment with hard-hit railcar manufacturers.