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Multiple organizations including the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL), BNSF Railway Company, the Freight Rail Customer Alliance (FRCA) and National Coal Transportation Association (NCTA), the Transportation Division of the International…

The government of Ontario in Canada on March 13 announced the acquisition of 127 miles (205 kilometers) of CN rail line between North Bay and Washago. The C$138 million investment…

Metra on Dec. 1, 2025, advised the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that “despite concerted and ongoing efforts,” no agreement has been reached on the conditions and compensation for the Chicagoland…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) in a March 12 decision authorized Union Pacific (UP) to construct and operate approximately six miles of new rail line in Maricopa County, Ariz., subject…

CSX customer HD Hyundai Power Transformers USA (HDHPT) advances a $200 million expansion and CSX subsidiary Quality Carriers, Inc., is named Unilever’s Bulk Carrier of the Year for 2025. Also,…

The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD) on March 3 sent a letter to senators and representatives, urging them to support the…

BNSF breaks ground on its sixth Logistics Center, and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Norfolk Southern (NS) announce the certification of more industrial development sites along their lines.

Surface Transportation Board (STB) nominee and Republican Richard Kloster received a favorable vote from the Senate Commerce Committee March 12 to fill one of two vacant seats on the five-member…

Norfolk Southern Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer John Orr was honored as Railway Age’s 2026 Railroader of the Year on March 10 during the traditional dinner hosted by…

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Now the No. 8 U.S. port by volume and still looking to grow, South Carolina Ports Authority boasts the deepest harbor on the  East Coast…

For the week ending March 7, 2026, total U.S. rail traffic rose 3.5% from the same point last year, marking the fourth consecutive week of traffic upticks, according to the…

RAILWAY AGE NEXT-GEN FREIGHT RAIL CONFERENCE, MARCH 10, 2026: Union Pacific sees end-to-end scale and past merger lessons supporting its consolidation case with Norfolk Southern, but peers flag competition loss…

Norfolk Southern (NS) and Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, are collaborating to upgrade 96 DC-traction NS locomotives to AC. Deliveries will start in 2027 and be completed in 2029. Each…

Serviacero USA, described as “one of Mexico’s most comprehensive steel solutions groups, has purchased a rail-served site at Gulf Inland Logistics Park, where it will establish its first U.S. manufacturing…

This is the fourth in a five-part series about railroad growth coming from truck conversions focused on the criticality of rail-to-rail competition to achieve Union Pacific’s growth outcome stated in…

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Railroad history tends to be reductive, or at the very least presented without a great deal of context. Why that is, and what…

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Norfolk Southern and Watco provide prime examples of how railroads can attract manufacturing plants to their systems and grow business. Manufacturing has always driven the…

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Improved carbody materials and innovative designs are transforming these long-lived warhorses into state-of-the-art railcars. The general-purpose, open-top gondola has been a part of freight railroading…

MXV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Under the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Strategic Research Initiatives (SRI) program, MxV Rail developed and evaluated improved techniques for measuring wheel/rail…

WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: For Surface Transportation Board (STB) Vice Chairperson Republican Michelle A. Schultz, preparation and persistence paved what likely was an already preordained career path. …