WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Norfolk Southern has agreed to give all Amtrak passenger trains the "highest priority" over freight trains. The settlement with ...

A group representing the nation’s freight rail companies said Wednesday that newly released data show last year was the safest year on record for the industry. The Association of American Railroads ...

Last fall, CBS Skywatch was overhead as thieves pulled off a freight train heist on Chicago's West Side. The wild scene played out for hours as several freight train cars were broken into, and dozens ...

BNSF accounts for a third of rail industry's NOx emissions Aging locomotives contribute to high pollution levels Rail industry resists adopting clean technologies due to cost concerns Dec. 14 (Reuters ...