Three years after the East Palestine derailment, the Railway Safety Act of 2025 remains under consideration and may become a ...

Nearly 400 representatives from Class I’s and short lines to suppliers, contractors, and the associations that represent them ...

Clean up efforts continued in Dixmoor Monday after a freight train derailed Friday morning at 140th Street and Spaulding Avenue. Mayor Fitzgerald Roberts said access to 145th Street near Spaulding ...

Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) intend to merge, which would give them control of nearly half of the nation’s freight market and fundamentally reshaping the national rail network.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amtrak would lose its service preference in effort to ease freight congestion. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — A bill ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

A Union Pacific freight train came off the rails at the Cantara Loop near Dunsmuir on Sunday night, sending about 19 cars off the track and backing up traffic through the Upper Sacramento River canyon ...

Freight trains in Canada were expected to roll again soon after the government forced a contract dispute into arbitration Thursday, averting potentially dire economic consequences for businesses and ...

Voltify, a start-up, has a bold ambition to convince U.S. Class 1 railroad companies to switch to battery-electric power. Powering locomotives using batteries rather than diesel would save U.S. rail ...

A car was crushed by a freight train early Wednesday morning after it got stuck on the Lake Road rail crossing in Congers.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) announced March 3 that it has finalized the 2026 State Rail Plan, ...