Years ago, then-BNSF chief executive Matt Rose said that railroads will need to adapt to the “Amazon Economy,” to be ...

Intermodal rail—a transportation mode choice that was to take trucks off the road—is slowing down. Where is it heading? Over several decades, the premise was that railroad intermodal trailer on flat ...

Norfolk Southern marked a milestone on Tuesday morning when its first New England double-stack train arrived in Ayer, Mass., ...

J.B. Hunt struck gold in the early 1990s as one of the first motor carriers with an intermodal rail service network. It now boasts the largest fleet of 53-foot containers in North America and one of ...

Norfolk Southern next week will shift its Chicago-New England intermodal trains to a faster CSX trackage-rights route east of ...

Gary Frantz is a contributing editor for DC Velocity and its sister publication, Supply Chain Xchange. He is a veteran communications executive with more than 30 years of experience in the ...

Freight rail’s enhanced productivity has made rail more competitive in the movement of intermodal domestic cargo. This, in turn, allows the trucking industry, which has been plagued by driver ...

Infinity Transportation Logistics (ITL) recently launched its new expedited refrigerated domestic intermodal container service between Washington/Oregon and the Midwest/East Coast. The new ITL service ...

Rail traffic on U.S. railroads totaled 487,138 carloads and intermodal units in the last full week of 2025, down 7% compared with the same period a year ago.

In October 2020, North Dakota launched intermodal rail service, the culmination of more than two decades of effort to gain access to intermodal transportation to reduce shipping costs for the state’s ...