Those factors include the anticipated retirement of different types of rail cars and high scrapping rates for rail cars. Inquiries to lease rail cars are also occurring across different types of ...

Standard, no-frills flat cars are the oldest types of rail cars. ... Flat cars come in different lengths and are also made with and without bulkheads that help keep the cargo in place.

The rail car shortage has grown serious enough to prompt the auto industry's lobbying group, ... Shippers can put lots of different types of freight into a box car or onto a flatbed car, ...

A German railway employee lowers a buffalo foot on a prototype Deutsche Bahn rail car at Coleman Worksite, Mannheim, Aug. 10. The new, upgraded rail car has the capability to carry 92 tons of ...

Doing that will allow NJ Transit to decrease the total number of rail cars it owns from 1,124 to 1,050 cars by 2020, but increase the number of available seats by 6 percent, hesaid.

New rail car being built at a factory in Hegewisch will bring six changes to smooth out your commute. The wheels are turning for what the CTA hopes is a simpler and easier commute.

Automakers frustrated by expensive delays in transporting vehicles to dealerships are about to learn whether railroads give preferential treatment to other shippers.

The multi-level rail car “trailers” that are pulled by a locomotive have the most impressive statistics, rolling 967,471 miles between breakdowns in September, the latest statistics that were ...