OMAHA, Neb. – The slowing economy and ongoing trade disputes are dragging railroad profits down in the second half of the year.

Two railroads, Union Pacific and CSX, have reported declining profit and revenue this week as they hauled less grain, imported goods and other...

New Jersey Transit will resume weekday off-peak, one-seat Raritan Valley Line (RVL) train service to New York Penn Station beginning Nov. 4, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced yesterday.

The commuter-rail service was suspended in September 2018 to allow NJ Transit to...

Virgin’s Hyperloop One is eyeing North Texas as a site for a certification facility, according to the Regional Transportation Council.

The electromagnetic tube technology which boasts speeds of 670 miles an hour would take passengers from DFW to Laredo in about 45...

A railroad bridge used by Norfolk Southern has collapsed into the Grand River in Missouri.

Norfolk Southern has suspended service between Moberly, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo. According to an advisory released by the Class 1 railroad company, detour options are being pursu...

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019  | JEFF DAVIS

The House Railroad Subcommittee held a hearing on September 24 to examine the state of commuter rail in America.

The hearing heard testimony from four witnesses:

• Paul Skoutelas, American Public Transportation Association (wri...

American Public Transportation Association (APTA) officials earlier this week urged Congress to increase support for commuter railroads by authorizing $1 billion in funding for positive train control (PTC) over six years through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and...

City of Teague Board of Aldermen issued a Resolution opposing the Texas Central High-Speed Railway proposed rail line as it would bisect Freestone County.
It is stated in the Resolution that Texas Central does not have eminent domain authority under current law and emi...

House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth raised eyebrows of transportation advocates this week when he suggested funding high-speed rail was a fool’s errand because new technology such as driverless cars could quickly make the locomotive obsolete.

Speaking after Wed...

August truck tonnage volumes were mostly positive, according to data issued yesterday by the American Trucking Associations (ATA).

The ATA’s advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for August, at 118.3 (2015=100), fell 3.2% on the heels of a 6.2%...

U.S. and Canadian residents took more trips on public transportation in second-quarter 2019 than during the same period last year, according to American Public Transportation Association (APTA) data.

Released this week, APTA's Transit Ridership Report showed a 0....