Shares of Walter Energy Inc. are poised to climb with rising metallurgical coal prices, said an analyst Monday as he upgraded the coal producer's stock.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's planned passenger rail system could be on a collision course with another one of the state's key economic priorities - expanding its powerful, growing freight and logistics industry.

View larger image Railcars, some laced with graffiti, remain idle along the tracks at Bowmans Crossing, south of Edinburg.

NORFOLK, VA. Thomas D. Bell Jr., chairman of SecurAmerica LLC, has been elected a director of Norfolk Southern Corporation , Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman announced today.

Only those who have children of their own will have shed that natural aversion to dining on other peoples' leftovers.

Freight railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp. said Thursday it will seek to require annual election of all board members to improve accountability, BusinessWeek reported.

HARRISONBURG, Va. - A small explosive device was set off Thursday on train tracks near James Madison University, but there were no reports of injuries.

Railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp. said Wednesday "economic momentum" continued in the last three months of 2009, but not enough to prevent a steep decline in its fourth-quarter earnings.

1. He will report to CEO Wick Moorman. Hurlbut succeeds Joseph C. Dimino, who retires Jan.

Chris Baker loads flat-roll steel onto railcars at the Steel Dynamics mill in Butler.

ELLISTON, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. is clearing land for a planned intermodal train terminal even as attorneys for Montgomery County try to block the project's state funding.

Yesterday, CSX Corporation reported earnings after hours and the reaction to the report was a 6% drop overnight.

CSX Corp. shares fell as much as 7% Wednesday after the railroad signaled a loss of momentum.

NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor Intermodal Freight Project has received the endorsement of the Retail Industry Leaders Association .

In recognition of the critical importance freight rail transportation offers shippers throughout the U.S., Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor program has been endorsed by 60 legislators on Capitol Hill as 2010 begins.

The railroad industry in 2010 will see stock prices buoyed by an anticipated recovery in the economy in the United States, good operating leverage due to cost cutting and investor enthusiasm over recent sector acquisition activity.

Norfolk Southern Corporation will present its fourth-quarter 2009 earnings on Wednesday, Jan.

Drummond Coal Sales Inc. have settled their dispute over depressed levels of coal imports moving via NS after entering the country at the Shipyard River Terminal in Charleston, S.C. NS Railway, a unit of Norfolk Southern Corp.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Norfolk Southern Corp. paid nearly $12 million to purchase the 316 acres in McCalla where it plans to build a $112 million railroad hub, according to county records.

Burlington Northern warned of a weak economy and tepid recovery ahead of its merger with Berkshire Hathaway.