C INCINNATI (WXIX) - A group of businesses has sued two railroads and two chemical companies over a railcar styrene leak in ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City said today that Class I railroad mergers are not necessary and that it isn’t interested in ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

A U.S. railroad industry plan to rely more heavily on technology instead of humans to conduct routine track safety ...

America’s freight railroads have already stopped accepting shipments of hazardous and other security-sensitive materials because of the looming threat of a strike Friday.

According to the Association of American Railroads, "a single container or trailer on a railcar can contain 2,000 UPS packages, tens of thousands of bananas or hundreds of flat-screen televisions." ...

Congress mandated that most of the country's major railroads install the technology by 2015. In a complex arrangement, Congress extended that deadline first to 2018 and now again to 2020.

The rapid expansion of America’s railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group of powerful businessmen. Here we profile 12 of the most influential railroad ...

A new investigation finds railroad bridge safety across the U.S. is hamstrung by minimal government oversight and limited ...

Photo illustration: Adele Morgan Congestion on America’s railroads is disrupting operations for farmers and agriculture companies, industry officials said, potentially pushing up food prices.