David Fink, President Trump’s nominee to oversee rail safety in the U.S., was questioned Tuesday about his own safety record as former head of a railroad.
The Association of American Railroads is asking the Trump administration to repeal a Biden-era rule requiring two-person train crews.
Carload volumes for North American railroads are still running ahead of year-ago levels.
Freight carriers are pressuring Congress and the Trump administration to address the rise in “strategic” cargo theft.
Rail traffic in the U.S. rose 11.2% for the week that ended Saturday – the sixth straight increase.
Weekly U.S. rail carloads surged to the strongest year-on-year improvement in nearly three months.
With an international intermodal surge winding down, analyst Larry Gross pins his hopes on domestic intermodal share gains.
For a fourth straight week, U.S. rail traffic has recorded an increase of more than 5% over the same week a year earlier. Statistics from the Association of American Railroads for the week ending March 22 show total traffic was 496,214 carloads and intermodal units, a 5.5% increase over the same week in 2024. That […]
Weekly U.S. rail traffic posted a 5.5% gain from the year-ago period as coal and grain led commodity gainers, according to the Association of American Railroads.
This week: Shoppers share safety concerns, and we examine theft on the railroads
Commodities were narrowly ahead in weekly U.S. rail traffic, according to the Association of American Railroads.
Theft of cargo cost Class I railroads more than $100 million in 2024, according to the Association of American Railroads.
U.S. senators heard suggestions on how to empower regulators and law enforcement to deal with thieves and scammers in trucking and rail.
Carload volume on U.S. railroads for the week ending Feb. 15 finished narrowly ahead of the same period in 2024.
U.S. rail traffic has risen for the fifth time in the first six weeks of 2025.
U.S. rail traffic showed a massive jump for the week ending Jan. 18, 2025, with both carload and intermodal traffic up more than 25% from the same week a year earlier. Statistics from the Association of American Railroads show overall traffic for the week was 500,160 carloads and intermodal units, a 25.9% increase. That included […]
Intermodal volumes boosted weekly U.S. rail traffic even as overall carloads slipped compared to the same week in 2024.
Weekly U.S. rail traffic showed a slight uptick over 2024 in the first report from the Association of American Railroads for 2025. Overall volume for the week ending Jan. 4 was 421,410 carloads and intermodal units, a 1% increase over the first week a year ago. That included 198,500 carloads, down 4.6%, and 222,910 containers […]
U.S. rail traffic is back on track after November swings, with intermodal gains outpacing weaker carloads.
Regulators may consider more oversight as a way to improve rail volumes.
