Premise: The golden age of railroads taking trucks off of the highways might be over. Why? Because the low-hanging fruit may already have been harvested. Translation: Most rail intermodal traffic may ...

This column is focused on the U.S. rail freight economy, starting with the near term, 2022 into 2023, followed by an overview toward 2030. Near the beginning of the year this outlook task may be a ...

The National Gateway is a major rail corridor improvement project under construction in the US. It will provide a more efficient rail route. The National Gateway rail corridor improvement project ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

Norfolk Southern next week will shift its Chicago-New England intermodal trains to a faster CSX trackage-rights route east of the Albany, N.Y., area thanks to the completion of bridge-clearance ...

The final piece of CSX’s Howard Street Tunnel clearance project — raising a bridge in Baltimore — is expected to be completed ...

Officials say the opening of a new rail corridor will allow double-stack intermodal freight to flow from the Port of New York and New Jersey to inland destinations and will cut the number of trucks on ...

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific settled their Salt Lake City trackage rights dispute Tuesday prior to a scheduled meeting with federal regulators. The deal allows BNSF to begin international intermodal ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - CSX made headlines in the fall when it completed a pair of massive projects within weeks of each other: The opening of the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore after a long-awaited ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norfolk Southern Ayer, Mass.-Chicago train 23K, with the railroad’s Erie heritage unit in the lead, passes through East Deerfield, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ceremonial CSX double-stack train rolls toward the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore on Sept. 26, 2025. Port of Baltimore ...