The Association of American Railroads reported that U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Sept. 14 rose 6.8% compared with ...

Shareholder-friendly initiatives bode well for the Zacks Transportation-Railroad industry. CP, CSX and NSC are well-poised to ...

The first day of the Surface Transportation Board’s unprecedented hearing focusing on growth in the rail industry – or, more ...

Investigators released a trove of documents about the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in Ohio, the subject of a two-day hearing that began Thursday. Tankers of vinyl chloride were ...

Although transportation by rail is the safest form of land travel, that doesn’t mean that incidents never occur.

The increased use of long trains has allowed the major freight railroads — CSX, Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CPKC ...

While his termination was unrelated to operations of the railroad, Shaw had come under fire for various decisions made by Norfolk Southern following last year’s train derailment and chemical ...

Shaw became CEO in May 2022. Just about nine months into the job, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derailed in the rural town of East Palestine. Shaw and the railroad have ...

Shaw was leading Norfolk Southern in February 2023 when one of its trains derailed, spilled toxic chemicals and caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, the worst railroad disaster in the last decade.

The Southern Illinois region is littered with former coal mine lands; and with them, coal mining towns that have dried up in recent times. Some towns, such as Dowell and Carrier Mills, are seeing ...