Rail News

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.

In his June 10 speech to the National Industrial Transportation League, Rep. James L. Oberstar outlined some of the features he and Sen. Jay Rockefeller plan to produce in the new rail law.

U.S. rail shippers for years tried to get Congress to act on their complaints and toughen federal rules over rates and service from the nation’s few remaining major long-haul lines.

Congress Reconsiders Liability Limits

Europe’s logistics industry is emerging leaner and fitter from double-digit declines in revenue and earnings spawned by the worst economic and trade recession since World War II.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b

Barges boosted their share of container transport to and from Rotterdam’s hinterland last year while rail lost three years of growth.

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

When the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach sneeze, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority catches a cold.

Rail freight data is flashing new warning signals about the strength of industrial demand for raw materials even as intermodal traffic expands.

Tariffs As Business Tools

As debate rages in Washington about how to pay for infrastructure expansion and modernization, one need look no further than the Alameda Corridor for how much-debated and controversial user fees can w

Maersk Introduces Priority Shipping

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BNSF Railway will replace its entire bridge over the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, to tap into low construction costs in the recovering economy and a major upgrade of one section that is alre

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and representatives from Class I railroads met Wednesday to discuss building a nationwide high-speed rail network, the secretary said.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood may want to get more diesel-guzzling trucks off the road, but he says that doesn’t mean he undervalues the trucking industry.

The U.S. must find more “innovative” ways to fund infrastructure projects, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday.

Norfolk Southern Railway is tapping Axion Power International to develop a battery management system for the all-electric yard locomotive it unveiled last year.

The Department of Transportation paid out more than $13 billion to reimburse states for work done under last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Freight Transportation Services Index rose for the third consecutive month in April, climbing 0.3 percent from March, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

Owners of railcars across North America pulled only 747 cars of all types out of storage and activated them for revenue service during May, a time when intermodal volume was still surging but many car

Intermodal volume at the largest U.S.-owned railroads surged in May at its faster year-over-year pace ever, reflecting both strength in rail-truck combination hauls and how weak traffic was in May 200

Trucking employment last month grew at its fastest pace since it began to recover in March, and that mode led a broad gain in May that extended across all freight transportation modes.

EU to Investigate Ocean Carriers

Demand for future rail capacity appears to be as clear as mud.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

Pacer International, in the second round of major management changes in the last three months, announced new executive changes as the intermodal and logistics services provider transforms from primari

Canadian Pacific Railway says it may gain as much as $960 million in new business in the next five years and expects to realize significant cost savings through improved productivity, according to ana

A preliminary list of 100 significant North American infrastructure projects identifies $400 billion in projects called critical to long-term economic competitiveness.

Paul T. Sorrow is retiring July 1 as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, clearing the way for First Vice President Dennis R.

The U.S. operations of all seven top-tier North American railroads expanded their workforce in April, the first time that has happened since rail employment bottomed in January.

The Port of Vancouver and Canadian National Railroad announced a supply chain collaboration agreement that is designed to enhance the gateway’s competitiveness for North American exports as well

The president of paper and packaging giant MeadWestvaco is telling other shippers and rail transportation providers that his company expects “prolonged economic softness” rather than a rob

The operator of the Chunnel between Britain and France is acquiring the UK’s third largest rail freight operator in a bid to boost its cargo traffic between the two countries.

Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is buying Electro-Motive Diesel, one of North America’s two major builders of line-haul freight locomotives, from its private equity fund owners for $820

The value of cross-border road, rail and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S.

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The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage months ago by the Commerce, Science and Transportation

Florida East Coast Railway said James R. Hertwig will become president of that carrier starting July 1, after he leaves his current position as president of CSX Intermodal.