Weekly rail freight finished short of 2024 levels in the latest week, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Two of America's largest railroad companies are set to combine in an $85bn (£63.8bn) deal that would create the first firm with a coast-to-coast freight rail network in the US.

Two and a half years after a train derailment in Ohio, major freight railroads have not joined a federal program aimed at ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

A U.S. railroad industry plan to rely more heavily on technology instead of humans to conduct routine track safety ...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick backed Union Pacific’s proposed $72 billion takeover of Norfolk Southern, saying it ...

Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S.

News from the world rail freight market. Innofreight Transportlogistik operated the first train carrying beech wood for UPM ...

Reuters FILE PHOTO: BNSF and Union Pacific train engines stand still on tracks due to flooding on the line from Tropical Storm Harvey in Orange, Texas, U.S., on August 30, 2017.

Federal safety investigators and some members of Congress want to expand special safety rules that apply to trains carrying ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he’d support consolidation as a means to make the US freight rail industry more ...