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Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Dec. 15, 2018. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 568,941 carloads and intermodal units, up 3.9 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending Dec. 15 […]
Association of American Railroads Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads on Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Dec. 8. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 570,225 carloads and intermodal units, up 3.1 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the […]
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe 87-car crude oil train operates over the Oregon, California, and Eastern during the November 2018 Extreme Trains event at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe 87-car crude oil train operates over the Oregon, California, and Eastern during the November 2018 Extreme Trains event at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
DETROIT — General Motors announced Monday that it will cease production at three automotive assembly plants and two transmission plants in North America next year, a decision sure to impact the railroads that serve them. The largest of the assembly plants slated for shutdown is the 6.2-million acre Lordstown Complex in Warren, Ohio, that produces […]
LOWELL, Ark. — John Roberts, CEO of rail intermodal pioneer J.B. Hunt, says rail reliability issues are causing the company to turn away customers from its intermodal business. “That drives a sales guy like me crazy,” said Roberts, according to a J. B. Hunt-released transcript of his comments at the recent Baird Industrial Global Conference […]
Ride along on Trains‘ August 2018 photo charter experience commemorating the end of revenue freight operations on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad’s narrow gauge route through New Mexico and Colorado 50 years ago in 1968. Along the way, you’ll see double-headed 2-8-2s Mikado-type steam locomotives, helper engines, and classic railroad action on the […]
Ride along on Trains‘ August 2018 photo charter experience commemorating the end of revenue freight operations on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad’s narrow gauge route through New Mexico and Colorado 50 years ago in 1968. Along the way, you’ll see double-headed 2-8-2s Mikado-type steam locomotives, helper engines, and classic railroad action on the […]
Canadian National power leads a westbound empty oil unit train through River Forest, Ill., on the Union Pacific on Aug. 25, 2018. CN is seeing increased crude-by-rail business. TRAINS: David Lassen TORONTO — Shipments of Canadian crude oil to the U.S. — already moving at record levels — are likely to increase further in the […]
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Rail Link will install positive train control technology along more than 600 miles of its main line in Montana and Idaho by 2022, company officials say. Vice President of Operations Stacy Posey tells Trains that MRL will be one of the first railroads of its size to voluntarily install the safety […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Court of Appeals has found for BNSF Railway in a case regarding state law on blocked grade crossings, saying in a decision released Friday that federal jurisdiction preempts state law. Officials in Chase County, Kan., had cited the railroad for blocking grade crossings for more than the 10 minutes allowed […]
Association of American Railroads Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Oct. 27. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 562,804 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.4 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week […]
