Premise: The golden age of railroads taking trucks off of the highways might be over. Why? Because the low-hanging fruit may already have been harvested. Translation: Most rail intermodal traffic may ...

Intermodal rail—a transportation mode choice that was to take trucks off the road—is slowing down. Where is it heading? Over several decades, the premise was that railroad intermodal trailer on flat ...

Major U.S. ports and their stakeholders warned federal regulators that the proposed rail merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern could hurt their competitive standing and the larger economy ...

Gary Frantz is a contributing editor for DC Velocity and its sister publication, Supply Chain Xchange. He is a veteran communications executive with more than 30 years of experience in the ...

The cornerstone for a massive network of intermodal facilities aimed at creating a more efficient freight link between the Mid-Atlantic ports and the Midwest is now being laid in North Baltimore, OH, ...

"On April 27, 1984, a train operated by the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. left Los Angeles for South Kearny, N.J. This wasn't just another train, however. On board were containers stacked ...

15th Annual Rail/Intermodal Roundtable: Seeking growth drivers amid big M&A questions The 15th Annual Rail/Intermodal Roundtable examines the current state of the U.S. rail and intermodal markets, ...

The SONAR data product offers numerous angles to get a read on the freight markets, primarily pertaining to the truckload, rail intermodal, and ocean sectors. One of the major trends in the data this ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norfolk Southern Ayer, Mass.-Chicago train 23K, with the railroad’s Erie heritage unit in the lead, passes through East Deerfield, ...