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 ...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — 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 ...

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 ...

Double stack freight rail transportation is up to five times more fuel efficient than truck transportation, according to a new report by the Federal Railroad Administration. The "Comparative ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In the canyon that is the Norfolk Southern Rail line through Allegheny Commons West Park, a westbound freight train rumbled through Thursday afternoon. The double engines sliding ...

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 ...

Remember those long, single-stack trains that sometimes seemed to sit forever along the tracks in the median of Va. 164 in Portsmouth? They’re gone for good, as of a couple of days before Christmas.

Pittsburgh has filed a formal objection with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to Norfolk Southern Railroad’s plans to reconstruct a city street bridge in the North Side so double stack ...