This is the first in a five-part series about railroad growth coming from truck conversions. Given Union Pacific’s proposed ...

A few months ago I wrote about a boxcar storage shed in Crookston, Minn., my hometown. During that same visit my friend, then an employee of Minnesota Northern RR (since retired) gave me a tour of the ...

IOWA CITY — Iowa Interstate Railroad is preparing to build a transloading facility in southeast Iowa City that will allow the transfer of cargo between railcars and trucks. The Cedar Rapids-based ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will renew ...

While railroad tracks are in close proximity to cleanup areas, GE maintains that the line lacks the necessary infrastructure, which would require an increase in truck traffic to transport material to ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will renew its push for one-person train crews later this summer when the railroad tests out the idea of having a conductor in a truck respond to problems on trains in ...

NACFE recently released a new report on the potential for railroads and trucking firms to reduce operating costs and improve emissions by improving utilization of intermodal rail and truck services.

Editors note: This story was updated on Monday, Jan. 29 to clarify the state owns the tracks on which the Housatonic Railroad operates. With or without rail transport, the lion’s share of the ...