August 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - With winds of 120 miles per hour Hurricane Laura left a trail of destruction through Southern Louisiana and parts of Southeast Texas yesterday, forcing rail rerouting and closures. Shippers were warned to expect some...

August 4, 2020 - GlobeSt.com - On the heels of another speculative project underway in El Paso, VanTrust Real Estate LLC recently broke ground on a 1 million-square-foot speculative industrial building in southern Dallas. Located south of Interstate 20, DalParc Logistics...

July 24, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Houston and Chicago are two of the major markets that Union Pacific Railroad is concentrating on to make its operations more efficient, according to UP President and CEO Lance Fritz during a 2nd quarter...

July 23, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Railroad's second quarter took a 20 percent hit in volume as the Coronavirus slowed down economic activity across its operations. Income slipped from $1.6 billion last year to $1.1 billion in this...

June 5, 2020 - FreightWaves.com - The railroad’s deployment of precision scheduled railroading resulted in faster and longer trains and reduced car sorting, according to the company’s recent sustainability report Converting more hump yards to flat switching has reduced the time a...

June 2, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Dow Chemical looks to sell Freeport TX rail-served terminal Union Tank Car to convert Sheldon, TX facility to rail car repair Accredo Packaging 32-acre Sugarland campus plans rail expansion Union Pacific declares stock...

February 27, 2020 - TRA Newswire - RCR Hempstead Logistics Park is now open for rail business.  The 137 acre site (http://hempstead.rcrrailco.com/) located in Hempstead & Waller County will serve national and international grade manifest and transload firms looking to locate...

January 23, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Kansas City Southern reported strong fourth quarter and full year 2019 results, driven by implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) principles while Union Pacific's revenue numbers fell in both the 4th quarter and for...

January 10, 2020 - TRA Newswire - 38 freight shippers claim that four Class 1 railroads unfairly overcharged them by adding fuel surcharges to their shipments and allegedly conspired to fix prices as far back as 2003.  That's according to a...

December 17, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific announced that the company has completed Positive Train Control (PTC) implementation, activating its final track segment. The technology is now implemented on all the company's federally mandated rail lines, including required passenger train...