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Industry insiders are closely watching rail negotiations for a freight strike this Friday. It would be the 1st since '92.

The last major rail merger was the $31 billion tie-up of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, resulting in the only single-line rail network that runs through Canada, the US and Mexico.

Indian Railways (IR) has set a new record by operating the country’s longest freight train. This will increase both the speed ...

You may even find yourself looking forward to your next freight train barricade so you can experiment with your newfound knowledge. It’s a tale as old as time for people who bike in Portland: you’re ...

Any big passenger or freight train engine is a marvel, a creature of metal, capable of pulling tremendous weight and traveling untired for miles. But there's something dreamy about a steam ...

The freight rail system is responsible for about 30% of cargo movement in the country, and business groups have been warning for months about the economic fallout from a strike.

On the contrary, as the rail blogger Uday Schultz shows, rail carriers’ share of freight revenues hasn’t moved much since 2000. By weight, trains have lost ground to trucks in that time.