DALLAS – What would happen to jobs, real-estate development and highway congestion if travelers could ride passenger trains that went 110 mph and shippers could route their freight on intermodal containers trains that did 90 mph?
That’s the issue railroad executives, state government officials and managers from some of Texas’s biggest corporations will address Jan. 27 [...]

OWINGS MILLS, Md. –  Cryo-Trans Inc., a leasing company specializing in the development and leasing of railroad freight cars for transporting frozen and perishable products, has placed an order for 429 new refrigerated boxcars.
These state-of-the-art railcars, ordered from The Greenbrier Companies Inc., have an interior length of 72 feet and have [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation is resuming local freight rail service on its Gulf Coast line, a vital transportation artery to New Orleans, railroad officials announced Jan. 18.
Service through the entire area is expected to be restored beginning in early February.
“We are incredibly proud of our employees and contractors for their [...]

LINCOLN, Ala. – Two Norfolk Southern trains, including one that was carrying sodium cyanide, collided Jan. 18 near a Honda plant, causing a "massive" fire, WXIA-TV reported on its Web site.
Flames as tall as 60 feet were reported after one train was [...]

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. – The R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Tennessee Terminal will add 36.6 miles of industrial track in the Memphis, Tenn., and Olive Branch, Miss., area, the company announced Jan. 16.
The company will lease the industrial switching trackage from BNSF [...]

WASHINGTON – The nearly 100-year-old Thames River Bridge between New London, Conn., and Groton, Conn., will undergo a $76 million replacement of its aging bascule lift span under a construction contract between Amtrak and Pittsfield, Maine-based Cianbro Corp., the parties [...]