Railroads continue to play a significant role in North America’s economic infrastructure. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration, the U.S. rail freight network covers almost 140,000 route miles and is generally considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world. In addition, says the FRA, the almost $80 billion rail freight industry creates more than 167,000 jobs across the country.
In essence, rail freight companies charge businesses to carry cargo across their network of rails. Their rates are overseen by the Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency that regulates financial aspects of surface transportation. Major railroads in North America include Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway.
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Funding aims to keep Port’s market share as more freight moves to intermodal and off the roads.
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The decision in favor of Horizon turned on a narrow question of where one of the employees’ case should be heard.
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group that has dabbled in hundreds of businesses over the years, can now add U.S. commuter train operator to his portfolio.
It took a week to get the tallies, but an early lead turned into an insurmountable deficit.
What happens if vegetables are grown vertically indoors? What happens if oil prices collapse? Those were some of the questions at this Marketwaves18 panel.
Blockchain solutions, improved interfaces, artificial intelligence and a tool for the intermodal business.
The dispute sheds light on the extraordinarily secretive process governing the intermodal agreement.
Rail and truck demand a secondary casualty in trade dispute.
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Norfolk Southern adds info on impending HQ move to Atlanta.
A decrease in coal volumes did not slow a revenue rise at BNSF Railway Company, which posted a 16% increase in operating revenues in the third quarter compared to Q3 2017.
The FreightWaves Research Institute will announce the winners of the Freight.Tech 25 next week at the MarketWaves18 conference at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
Propelled by international growth and a strong North American market, Greenbrier anticipates one of its strongest years ever in FY2019.
In this final part of the three-part series, the author looks at what steps need to be taken to successfully implement precision railroading.
Canada’s largest railroad boosts intermodal and refrigerated service offering with acquisition of major trucking company.
Under the terms of the Saudi joint venture, Greenbrier, the second largest freight railcar manufacturer in the U.S., will provide up to $100 million in new railcars, lift equipment and other terminal investments, and will operate intermodal and other freight terminals.
Precision railroading has worked, but consistent success has been elusive.
