" A Cartographica book"--Half-title. Map list -- Introduction -- Opening the trade routes -- First railroads, 1700-1830 -- Origins of the streetcar -- Rail track developments -- Harnessing the power ...

North American carload and intermodal traffic for the first 31 weeks of 2025 (ending Aug. 2) was up 2.9% from the prior-year period, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) latest ...

The railroad map -- Origins -- Local lines -- Extending outward -- Toward a network -- Pacific dreams -- A railroad war -- A network West -- The first transcontinental -- The race West -- Years of ...

A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...

Canada’s Class I railroads have joined BNSF Railway in calling out the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern mega-merger as a negative for the industry. While Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) had already ...

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “250 Years of America,” a multipart series examining the innovations, breakthroughs and pivotal moments that have shaped the nation ...

Abel said BNSF, which is a laggard in profit margins versus other big railroads, has a "lot of opportunities to get better." BNSF, he said, ranked fifth among the big six North American railroads in ...