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In July 2025, more than two and a half years after Amtrak called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation into “substandard” customer on-time performance for Sunset…

Apollo 17 in December 1972 was NASA’s final Project Apollo manned lunar mission. On April 1, 2026, following lengthy delays, the agency returned to manned lunar spaceflight with Artemis II,…

Members of the Transportation Communications Union/IAM (TCU) intermodal group ratify a new labor agreement with BNSF. Also, Norfolk Southern (NS) congratulates Mercedes-Benz on its $4 billion investment in its Alabama…

Norfolk Southern (NS) will lease its Doraville rail corridor and transload terminal in Georgia to Jaguar Transport Holdings LLC (Jaguar), which is slated to operate local switching service and “make…

U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 28, 2026 (Week 12) saw a slight uptick, the Association of American Railroads reported April 1. Volume totaled 515,921 carloads and intermodal…

CSX releases its 2025 Annual Report in which President and CEO Steve Angel says results “fell short” of expectations, but the Class I is positioned “for stronger operational and financial…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on March 31 presented its calculation for the change in railroad productivity for the 2020-24 averaging period. Comments are due by April 15.

OmniTRAX on April 1 announced that it is completing infrastructure investments to resume Central Texas rail operations in April. Service to a San Saba, Texas, rock quarry this month marks…

CSX opens the TRANSFLO Petersburg Terminal in Virginia. Also, BNSF earns a Building Together Award from Economic Development Corporation of Utah; and Union Pacific’s (UP) Engineering team creates a digital…

EXP announced March 26 that it has been selected by Shepard Development Corporation (SDC) as the prime engineering consultant for Phase 1 of the Shepard Logistics Centre, the first development…

Railway Age is calling on subscribers to submit their nominations by April 8 for the seventh-annual 10 Most Influential Industry Leaders poll.

Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) welcomes Bryan Blalock as President of Gateway Terminals Savannah. Also, CSX Technical Director Judy Covington-Poole is named Woman of the Year by the National Association of…

BNSF’s $3.6 billion capital investment plan for 2026 will help us modernize infrastructure and enhance capacity across our 32,500-mile network. A key part of that plan is a major improvement project underway in Galesburg, Ill., a location central to BNSF operations since the 1850s. Located about…

Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) new inland port in Gainesville, Ga., is set to open May 4, 2026, a development that GPA says, “will strengthen Northeast Georgia’s attractiveness and business competitiveness.”

The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) and the Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD) have filed separate letters with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that respectively request all six Class I CEOs to…

Cando Rail & Terminals (Cando) on Feb. 23 announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Savage Rail (Savage) in a “mutually beneficial deal that will make Cando North…

BNSF on March 26 announced that its customers have invested more than $5.3 billion in 2025, completing 117 rail-served projects, the highest number closed in the last six years, according…

North American carload and intermodal traffic for the first 11 weeks of 2026 (ending March 21) was up 2.1% from the prior-year period, according to the Association of American Railroads’…

In the opinion of the late President Ronald Regan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Among railroaders,…

CN is named National Carrier – Multi Mode winner by Canada Post/Postes Canada. Also, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) de México President Oscar del Cueto is appointed President of the…