Premise: The golden age of railroads taking trucks off of the highways might be over. Why? Because the low-hanging fruit may already have been harvested. Translation: Most rail intermodal traffic may ...

This column is focused on the U.S. rail freight economy, starting with the near term, 2022 into 2023, followed by an overview toward 2030. Near the beginning of the year this outlook task may be a ...

HONOLULU — Ocean shipping firm Matson, BNSF Railway, and heavy-duty lock maker War-Lok will partner to enhance security for ...

Boyd Intermodal this week unveiled a new intermodal innovation allowing double-stacking of flatbed freight on the rails. The Boyd Intermodal Raildeck was developed in conjunction with Raildecks ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

TRUCK-RAIL INTERMODAL, PART I: Truck-rail intermodal freight transportation continues to grow in importance, moving ever-larger volumes of cargo across North America. During a visit last month to ...

Construction on the Howard Street Tunnel started this week. It marks the first time the tunnel, which opened in the late 1800s, has been closed. The reconstruction will help modernize the nearly 8,700 ...

CSX Transportation, which is expanding its intermodal terminal in Worcester, said it has opened New England’s first double-stack cleared intermodal route. The rail operator said the route is on its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norfolk Southern Ayer, Mass.-Chicago train 23K, with the railroad’s Erie heritage unit in the lead, passes through East Deerfield, ...

Remember those long, single-stack trains that sometimes seemed to sit forever along the tracks in the median of Va. 164 in Portsmouth? They’re gone for good, as of a couple of days before Christmas.