Rail traffic on U.S. railroads totaled 487,138 carloads and intermodal units in the last full week of 2025, down 7% compared ...

Personal vehicles caught and passed rail travel as the primary mode of transportation for Americans in the 20th century. And ...

U.S. rail volume eked out a small gain over 2024 levels in the final full week of 2025, ending a nine-week string of declines ...

The proposed Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS) merger will do just that. It will create America’s first true transcontinental rail network, connecting more than 50,000 route miles across 43 ...

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.

For the first 27 weeks of 2023 (ending July 8), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.2% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) July 12 report. Both ...