While it is impossible to summarize the rail industry’s year in a single article, there were certain key stories and themes ...

Metra canceled six BNSF line trains on Christmas Eve due to staff shortages, warning of potential crowding on remaining ...

The freight railroad company BNSF says the Rocky Mountain Steel Mill in Pueblo stopped shipping rails for train tracks this fall. That’s according to a recent legal claim filed by the railroad.

BNSF Railway and Union Pacific have filed lawsuits against North America’s largest producer of rail, arguing that Orion Steel ...

Santa Claus, pizza, hot chocolate, mini-trains, and big trains were all a part of BNSF’s Christmas celebration.

The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two of their biggest ...

BNSF Railway, which employs nearly 3,000 people at its Fort Worth headquarters, is lobbying against a colossal merger proposal by two competitors that would reshape the nation’s freight rail network ...

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A motorist was uninjured, but cited by police, after his vehicle was hit by a train on Sunday, according to law enforcement officials. The collision took place about 10 p.m., south of the designated ...

LAS CRUCES — City police on Tuesday morning identified the man struck and killed by a freight train in the middle of town last week. Manuel Jose Aguirre, 46, was found at approximately 2 p.m. on Nov.