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 ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has repeated its call for federal regulators to open an investigation into Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s operation of the Meridian Speedway, claiming that CPKC’s handling ...

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, ...

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 ...

Norfolk Southern next week will shift its Chicago-New England intermodal trains to a faster CSX trackage-rights route east of the Albany, N.Y., area thanks to the completion of bridge-clearance ...

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 ...

CSX Transportation, which is expanding its intermodal terminal in Worcester, said it has opened New England’s first double-stack cleared intermodal route. The rail operator said the route is on its ...

Like just about every other regional or national carrier in the industry, Boyd Bros. Transportation faces common challenges. Scrutiny under Compliance Safety Accountability, pending changes to the ...

Remember those long, single-stack trains that sometimes seemed to sit forever along the tracks in the median of Va. 164 in Portsmouth? They’re gone for good, as of a couple of days before Christmas.

The American Transportation Research Institute's annual analysis of truck speeds through congested interchanges yielded a new worst bottleneck this year. From pricing intelligence and compliance tools ...