In the early morning ... row seat at a railroad crossing, and as the train chugged through the intersection, I found myself wondering for the hundredth time what all the cars had in them.

It is updated nearly one million times each month. The revenue-earning fleet is a subset of the North American rail fleet which is largely composed of freight cars that can be used in interchange ...

Parallel Systems says its autonomous electric railcars will begin testing on two Georgia railroads this month.

A fractured section of railroad track led to 16 cars of a Burlington Northern ... During peak coal traffic through the early 2010s, more than two dozen freight trains reportedly used the route ...

Shortline railroads are precisely the business partners that major railroads need to stanch a decline in the carload business ...

Rail has been traditionally underutilized because trains are typically powered by large and expensive locomotives that pull hundreds of freight cars at a time over long distances, Soule explained ...

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder ...