Amtrak continued six years of ridership growth by carrying a record 28.7 million people in fiscal 2008, ended Sept. 30. The 11 percent ...read more.

As the two week deadline approaches for California voters to vote on the $9.95 billion Proposition 1A bond measure, opponents of the statewide ...read more.

Railroads like CSX Transportation stand to benefit from a move afoot in South Carolina to significantly increase imports and exports shipped through ...read more.

The economic bailout approved by Congress this month came a little too late to prevent a drop in railroad stock prices and shipments during September ...read more.

Residents of Bullitt County, Ky., are getting a chance to share in a $3 million settlement CSX Corp. agreed to pay recently for a Jan. 16, 2007 ...read more.

The conductor of a Union Pacific Railroad train that killed a construction worker near Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, in September 2007 is suing the ...read more.

Congress has responded to Canadian National Railway's plan to purchase Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway with a proposal that would make it ...read more.

The U.S. Transportation Department last week announced $30 million in matching grants for passenger rail projects as part of a revised strategy to ...read more.

BNSF Railway says it is saving a significant amount of money on fuel after its engineers started using a speed-throttle limiting method on high-speed ...read more.

The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board is being investigated by the FBI following published reports that an unusually high number of Long Island Rail ...read more.