Ethan Amstutz A: Running rights are called trackage rights. The rules and timetables of the larger railroads govern the employees of the mythical short line when they're operating over that trackage.

Amendment by NMDOT grants restored Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2926 access to eight Rail Runner Express commuter rail stations for ...

Metra’s request to the Surface Transportation Board for terminal trackage rights in the Chicago area is an effort to maintain ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is initiating a rulemaking proceeding to establish a new “emergency temporary trackage rights class exemption” that could be invoked during natural disasters, ...

The Surface Transportation Board has decided, somewhat reluctantly, to thrash out a trackage rights dispute raised by a BNSF request to acquire "terminal trackage rights over a single track jointly ...

Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. said it completed a $10 million program to upgrade its line between West Chicago and Belvidere. Train speeds will be increased to between 30 and 40 ...

Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, a unit of IC Industries Inc., completed the sale of 117 miles of track in Indiana, from Sullivan to Indianapolis, to Indiana Rail Road Co. for $5.3 million. The ...

WASHINGTON – Union Pacific will lease 1.25 miles of trackage in Kansas City, Missouri, to a new Jaguar Transport short line in March. The Kansas City West Bottoms Railroad will serve a cluster ...