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Last week, President Joe Biden and establishment Washington railroaded 115,000 rail workers. The Senate voted by a wide margin to impose a major labor agreement between railroad companies and a dozen ...

For the week ending May 9, 2026, total U.S. rail traffic rose 3.7% from the same point last year, with gains in both carloads ...

Trains sit on the tracks at the BNSF Railway Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kan. Nick Wagner nwagner@kcstar.com Just before he retired, Matthew Rose offered a warning to his peers running the nation’s ...

Total North American carload and intermodal traffic rose 2.3% through the first 51 weeks of 2024 compared with the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Dec. 27.

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On Dec. 18, an Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore. derailed on a highway overpass in DuPont, Wash. So far, the accident has left at least three people dead and has injured hundreds ...

Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor's long fight to preserve the ...

(CN) — The interests of two powerful industries clashed in the Fourth Circuit Wednesday over the authority of a state to streamline speedy internet access in rural areas. The Association of American ...

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American railroads are still a long way from consolidating into two or three giant lines that would blanket the nation, but the trend is clearly in that direction. There have been 35 rail mergers ...