railroad News Updates

Schneider unveiled a deal making Norfolk Southern its primary eastern rail provider Oct. 29, demonstrating the size of the carrier’s intermodal ambitions.

The train was 4.7 miles long and consisted of 696 freight wagons, according to Transnet, South Africa's state-run transport and logistics company.

The major freight carriers are joining with local police, the FBI and corporate security teams, investing millions of dollars in monitoring technology, drones, barbed-wire fencing and other improvements.

The deal to create the nation's first transcontinental railroad has been divisive within the industry because it would concentrate so much market power in the hands of one company.

Shares of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern slumped the most in more than a year after the STB paused its review of their planned $72 billion merger.

The derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, has boosted earnings in recent quarters as the railroad collected insurance payments, but that wasn't the case this time.

Requests to store distillate fuel in tanks with a railroad connection soared to 250,000 barrels in March, up from 30,000 barrels in February and none in January.

Union Pacific has secured long-term access to U.S.-made steel rail through a new seven-year contract with Rocky Mountain Steel Mills.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves will not seek re-election, ending a congressional career that began in 2001.

A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced the Railway Safety Act, reviving legislation aimed at bolstering safety standards three years after a high-profile derailment in Ohio.