An oft-noted truism in the transportation world is that nothing moves more economically than steel-on-steel. Hence the boom of railroads, which played a significant role in the development of ...

The volume tailwind has finally arrived for the railroad industry with improvement in autos, chemicals, and even forest ...

Railroads helped build America, standardize time, open the West, connect markets and support industrial growth.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — American railroads are facing an employment crisis in a time of epochal change, urgently looking to attract young jobseekers to replace an aging workforce while competing with other ...

Major freight railroads are facing pressure to add sick days for their workers from a new front: An influential investment group says some of its members are pushing the measure that Congress declined ...

Most Americans may not appreciate the central role that private railroads play in supporting the U.S. economy and their everyday lives. Recent fears of a railroad strike may have changed that. After ...

Industrial companies span several subsectors of the economy they support. Find out what stocks Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns and what the Oracle of Omaha looks for in a company. Canadian ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern plan to deliver the additional merger information requested by the Surface Transportation Board in two batches, with the first likely coming in early July, UP CEO ...