Rail Freight

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced the signing of an agreement for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to receive $6.75 million from the Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) III program to rehabilitate 49 miles of state-owned rail line between Elk City and Sayre, Okla., in the Anadarko Basin. There are few viable options [...]

The last couple of years have seen a revival of freight services in Ireland with regular container services between Ballina and Waterford and Dublin ports and timber trains from Ballina / Westport to Waterford picking up pace. Zinc ore trains also run three times daily between Drogheda and Dublin Port. To improve the reliability of [...]

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. has said that its newly formed subsidiary, the Columbus & Chattahoochee Railroad, Inc. (CCR), has signed an agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) to lease and operate a 26-mile segment of NS track that...

QR National recently signalled its long-term commitment to the Hunter Valley by announcing plans for a modern train support facility at Hexham near the Port of Newcastle. At an estimated capital cost of up to $100 million, the proposed facility would support the company’s growing New South Wales coal haulage business and alleviate capacity pressures [...]

GB Railfreight has operated the first test locomotive on a new freight line to be used by Crossrail to transfer millions of tonnes of excavated material from London to Northfleet, Kent. Lafarge have reinstated a disused rail freight link from...

Freightliner Limited has made a 'significant investment' in new container wagons to meet the 'evolving deep sea container market towards 40ft containers'. Freightliner has placed an order with VTG for a fleet of twin platform Ecofret ‘Shortliner’ wagons. The wagons are...

QR National is evaluating an independent, multi-party railway to connect iron ore mines in the East Pilbara to Port Hedland. QR National is evaluating the development of standard-gauge railway to be designed as a staged development to be progressively expanded to meet shipping allocations of customers at Port Hedland Port. Operation of the initial stages [...]

A new freight terminal in Sydney’s south-west will take 3,300 trucks off Sydney roads every day and create thousands of jobs for the region, the Government has said. The NSW Government has announced its intention to call for tenders from the private sector to design, build and operate an intermodal terminal at Moorebank. The Moorebank [...]

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited has announced its first-quarter 2012 results with reported net income of $142 million, an increase of $108 million, or 318%, from the same period in 2011, and diluted earnings per share of $0.82, an increase of $0.62, or 310%, from the same period in 2011. Total revenues were $1.4 billion, an [...]

Union Pacific Railroad is enhancing Kansas’ transportation infrastructure by investing $14.4 million in the rail line that runs between Kansas City and just east of Topeka. The project is in progress and is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The 55-mile project includes replacing nearly 11 miles of rail, along with [...]