Scott Driggers has been named CEO of Cathcart Rail, which operates three short line railroads, provides switching and transloading services, and a nationwide railcar service network. Driggers, who ...

The railroad added 15 new Focus Sites to its network; 12 of the new industrial parks are connected through short line railroads Union Pacific Railroad announced today it has added 15 new Focus Sites ...

Patriot Rail Corp. and the City of Temple, Tex., announced that Patriot’s new subsidiary, Temple & Central Texas Railway ,has been awarded an exclusive long-term license agreement to provide rail ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company recently discovered it owns two short-line railroads that it must sell because of its 2010 acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.

SHERWIN, Kan. -- An aging General Electric locomotive, its gray nose flecked with rust, pulls slowly out of the Butterball feed mill in rural Cherokee County. Engineer John Horton eases his string of ...

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) on Jan. 7 reported that Ronald “Ron” Batory, Kedrick Earl Durden and Henry Posner III have been selected to join the Short Line ...

DES MOINES (AP) — Operators of short line railroads are hopeful that a proposed low-interest loan program introduced by two Iowa congressmen will receive approval. Legislation introduced by Reps.

Savage Tooele Railroad, Utah’s first new short line railroad in more than a century, opened Wednesday in northwest Utah. The 11-mile route which restored a former Union Pacific branch serves the ...

Congressional action is needed to extend tax provisions that promote the production of biodiesel and support the sustainability of short line railroads, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy ...