Railroad

Short line operator OmniTRAX promotes new chief commercial officer.

Union Pacific today reported record financial and operational results for 2025 despite a drop in fourth-quarter operating income.

Pricing improved despite lower carload freight for UP, which is planning to merge with Norfolk Southern.

Grain helped lift U.S. rail freight in the latest week’s data amid weaker intermodal and carload shipments.

Fourth-quarter profits at CSX were negatively affected by continued freight weakness, which the railroad anticipates will persist.

CSX said severance expenses, lower merchandise freight and coal offset higher freight rates as earnings fell short of estimates for the fourth quarter.

Norfolk Southern has acquired 40 new diesel-electric locomotives from Wabtec, its first such purchase since 2022, as it modernizes its fleet.

As you are aware, a major winter storm is forecast to impact the south-central and eastern U.S. late this week – regions that are generally less equipped to handle severe winter weather. As the National Weather Service describes it, “an expansive winter storm will start Friday in the Southern Rockies/Plains and Mid-South.” The resulting ice, […]

A bill signed into law by outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy regulates hazardous-material trains in the state. 

BSI Consulting identified rail cargo theft as a top area of concern, particularly in the U.S. Southwest and Midwest.

Soybeans and retail goods fueled a 33% bump in container volume at Inland Port Dillon in 2025. 

The Port of Long Beach, half of the busiest U.S. container gateway,  is laying plans to double throughput to 20 million containers by 2050.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – If there’s a white whale that railroads have long hunted, it’s the goal of converting truck traffic to rail. It’s a centerpiece of Union Pacific’s effort to show public benefits to its merger with Norfolk Southern (NYSE: UNP, NSC), but the goal is hardly a new one. Janet Drysdale, chief commercial officer […]

The Surface Transportation Board rejected as incomplete the merger application by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to create the first transcontinental railroad.  

Union Pacific’s chief executive fired back at rivals who oppose the merger to create the first transcontinental railroad.

U.S. rail carload freight and intermodal shipments for the first week of this year improved nearly by double-digits.

Canada’s Port Saint John and DP World completed the eastern maritime hub’s $178 million West Side Modernization Project.

The January State of Freight webinar continued with the message that the market may have made a turn that will stick around.

Rail traffic for U.S. railroads fell 4% for the week ending Jan. 3, 2026, according to statistics from the Association of American Railroads. Volume for the week was 404,293 carloads and intermodal units, with 192,665 carloads, down 2.8% from the corresponding week a year earlier, and 211,628 containers and trailers, down 5.1%. Only chemicals, 2.3%, […]

BNSF Railway and Canadian National tell U.S. regulators that Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are withholding crucial documents needed to properly evaluate their proposed transcontinental merger.