Bombardier Transportation has launched its first Electrostar addition to the Gautrain rapid rail in South Africa. Bombardier will design ...read more.

The current presidential campaign is shaping up with potentially pivotal importance for Amtrak. Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain is a critic ...read more.

Despite President Bush's stated opposition to the measure, the House fast tracked approval last month for a funding authorization bill for ...read more.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. has won a landmark federal lawsuit that will allow railroads to charge storage and demurrage charges on empty rail ...read more.

Railroads' fuel costs could surpass labor expenses this year for the first time if the price of oil continues to rise, according to an analysis ...read more.

The Federal Railroad Administration implemented a final rule imposing liability and civil penalties on railroad employees individually if they are ...read more.

Flooding, last month in the Midwest, hurt carload shipments for railroads worse than they expected, according to the latest figures from the ...read more.

Amtrak and a Baltimore real estate developer are suing each other in federal court in a dispute over the land under an old railroad parcel post ...read more.

CSX Corp. is set for an annual shareholders' meeting this week that could change the long-term business operation of the company. ...read more.

BNSF Railway and Norfolk Southern Corp. plan to begin a new transcontinental intermodal service July 7 running between Norfolk Southern's ...read more.