PITTSBURGH — A local environmental group is raising concerns about a plan to bring double stack trains through downtown Pittsburgh. The group, Railroad Protection Pollution Pittsburgh or RP3, is ...

A rail project years in the making could be getting started in the next year. Norfolk Southern held its final public open house of the proposed $28 million project on Wednesday night. The railroad ...

THE FOLKS AT THE PORT OF BALTIMORE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF DOUBLE STACKED TRAINS FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY, BUT FINALLY IT BECAME A REALITY IN OCTOBER. CRANES LOAD CONTAINERS ONTO RAIL ...

BUILT IN THE 1890S, THE HOWARD STREET TUNNEL UNTIL NOW HAD BEEN A CHOKE POINT FOR FREIGHT TRAIN, RAIL TRAFFIC AND AN ACHILLES HEEL FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE. THE EXPANSION CHANGES EVERYTHING. THIS IS ...

CSX double-stack service to and from the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore launched Oct. 28 as part of the $500 million Howard Street Tunnel Project. The project is improving clearance at the 1.7 ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

Construction on the Howard Street Tunnel started this week. It marks the first time the tunnel, which opened in the late 1800s, has been closed. The reconstruction will help modernize the nearly 8,700 ...

The Port of Baltimore now has the ability to double-stack shipping containers on trains in and out of the terminal. Port ...

Evacuation of cargo from the Port of Mombasa is set to improve following the launch of double-stack wagons on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line. Yesterday, the maiden double-stack train snaked its ...

CSX’s Howard Street Tunnel Project “is a pivotal step in enhancing freight transportation along the I-95 corridor,” the Class I reported Aug. 7. The comprehensive initiative includes upgrades to the ...