CEO PERSPECTIVE, RAILWAY AGE, APRIL 2025 ISSUE: Converting freight from truck to rail in North America happens one load at a time. We cannot achieve our grand vision of volume growth and “modal ...

Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a freight train derailment in northern Arizona that heavily damaged 23 cars and a load of new vehicles. Coconino County Emergency Management ...

After loading all of the rail cars on board, the train car barges set sail for a 1,400 mile journey over water before docking and transferring the freight back onto land to complete its journey.

For example, each barge load of 14 freight cars takes the place of 56 tractor-trailers that would be needed to haul the same amount of freight between New York and New Jersey.

There is, arguably, no mode of ground transportation less forgiving and more physically and mechanically challenging than rail freight. Railcars comprise, for the most part, an all-steel ...