Premise: The golden age of railroads taking trucks off of the highways might be over. Why? Because the low-hanging fruit may already have been harvested. Translation: Most rail intermodal traffic may ...

Construction on the Howard Street Tunnel started this week. It marks the first time the tunnel, which opened in the late 1800s, has been closed. The reconstruction will help modernize the nearly 8,700 ...

Major U.S. ports and their stakeholders warned federal regulators that the proposed rail merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern could hurt their competitive standing and the larger economy ...

As motor carriers enjoy the fruits of the tight freight environment, railroads are continuing their push to boost earnings while they adjust to a market that increasingly is shifting toward intermodal ...

The National Gateway is a major rail corridor improvement project under construction in the US. It will provide a more efficient rail route. The National Gateway rail corridor improvement project ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

Norfolk Southern Railway will open its Heartland Corridor intermodal corridor this week, which will increase intermodal freight capacity by raising vertical clearances in 28 tunnels on a Norfolk ...

This column is focused on the U.S. rail freight economy, starting with the near term, 2022 into 2023, followed by an overview toward 2030. Near the beginning of the year this outlook task may be a ...

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific settled their Salt Lake City trackage rights dispute Tuesday prior to a scheduled meeting with federal regulators. The deal allows BNSF to begin international intermodal ...

Project first suggested in 2002 may yet go forward as Port of Baltimore vies for hinterland freight movements. CSX Corp. CSX is reversing course with a pledge of new funding to a long-delayed tunnel ...