For the week ending May 9, 2026, total U.S. rail traffic rose 3.7% from the same point last year, with gains in both carloads ...

Last week, President Joe Biden and establishment Washington railroaded 115,000 rail workers. The Senate voted by a wide margin to impose a major labor agreement between railroad companies and a dozen ...

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Trains sit on the tracks at the BNSF Railway Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kan. Nick Wagner nwagner@kcstar.com Just before he retired, Matthew Rose offered a warning to his peers running the nation’s ...

On Dec. 18, an Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore. derailed on a highway overpass in DuPont, Wash. So far, the accident has left at least three people dead and has injured hundreds ...

North American carload and intermodal traffic for the first 17 weeks of 2026 (ending May 2) was up 3.9% from the prior-year ...

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Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor's long fight to preserve the ...

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(CN) — The interests of two powerful industries clashed in the Fourth Circuit Wednesday over the authority of a state to streamline speedy internet access in rural areas. The Association of American ...

American railroads are still a long way from consolidating into two or three giant lines that would blanket the nation, but the trend is clearly in that direction. There have been 35 rail mergers ...