Federal investigators released new details Wednesday of how a truck struck by a Metra train pierced a railcar, resulting in a rider's fatal ejection May 11 in Clarendon Hills. After the train collided ...
NACFE recently released a new report on the potential for railroads and trucking firms to reduce operating costs and improve emissions by improving utilization of intermodal rail and truck services.
Railroads are pushing lawmakers to hike taxes on trucks to fix a crisis-level problem of federal road and bridge funding, putting pressure on their biggest competitor as each vies for freight market ...
LEE — General Electric says in its revised transportation plan for the Rest of River PCB cleanup that it can reduce its initial projection of truck trips by 76 percent from its initial plan by using ...
Question: I was on a bike ride with friends along a route that included a railroad crossing. My friend, who has hearing aids, approached the railroad crossing, slowed down, and was almost in the ...
Signs everywhere in Braceville, Illinois, say trains could come barreling through at 80 mph. But workers at the Union Pacific intermodal terminal in Joliet can’t always unload freight that fast. So ...
This story appears in the Dec. 19 & 26 print edition of Transport Topics. Truck/rail freight’s steady growth trajectory continued in 2011, buoyed by domestic intermodal service that apparently ...
NORTH BERGEN — Township officials and leaders of the Gateway rail tunnel project are zipping letters back and forth over concerns about the barrage of trucks that will be using the streets around ...
As always, it will probably come down to money. It's simply cheaper and quicker to transport by pipeline than by rail or by truck. The difference in cost is about $50 billion a year for shipping via ...