Intermodal shipments led U.S. rail freight lower in the latest weekly data but traffic remains higher year-to-date. The post ...

Total U.S. carload and intermodal traffic for the week ending Dec. 6, 2025, dipped 2.3% from the same point last year, ...

U.S. rail traffic declined 1.8% for the week ending Nov. 29, the Association of American Railroads reported on Wednesday.

U.S. rail traffic was down by a narrow margin for the week ending Nov. 22, the seventh straight week where traffic has been below 2024 levels. According to statistics from the Association of American ...

For the first 31 weeks of 2023 (ending Aug. 5), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.1% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Aug. 9 report. Both ...

Class I railroad earnings growth will slow and their stock prices will slump if they can't maintain improved service levels and win back volume lost to trucks, a Wall Street firm warns in a new report ...

In our view, each of the North American Class I railroads we cover, including CSX, enjoys a wide economic moat rooted in cost advantages and efficient scale. Core pricing and margin resilience in past ...

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 ...

For all our differences, Americans are remarkably united on one key point. Partisan Democrats and Republicans, business and labor leaders, and just about all the folks sitting in think tanks or on ...

We don’t expect any new mainlines to be built, but the incumbent Class I providers would enjoy vastly lower unit and marginal costs than an upstart, given immense network/lane density—the existing ...