In late July, the Department of Justice took up a cause it hadn’t touched since the late 1970s: It sued a freight railroad for delaying Amtrak trains. In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that on tracks ...
After a 25-year struggle to cross the Alleghany Mountains, the Baltimore & Ohio linked Atlantic Tidewater with the ...
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The U.S. has no federal limit on freight train length, leaving the cost-conscious rail industry free to experiment with giants like the 3.5-mile, nine-locomotive behemoth that chugged from Texas to ...
Until the 1960s, railways dominated freight across every distance bar the shortest. Much freight went by sea, and some by truck. But then trucking grew, and grew, and grew, while rail’s share of ...