A Bridge Has Kept Mega-Ships Out of New Orleans
USA: A federal permit has cleared Louisiana's $1.8 billion container terminal downriver from a bridge that keeps today's largest ships from reaching existing New Orleans port facilities.
Rail Freight News
BNSF Expands Phoenix–Dallas Service Before New Terminal Opens
USA: BNSF Railway has expanded its Phoenix–Dallas-Fort Worth intermodal service to six days a week, months before the first phase of Logistics Park Phoenix is expected to open.
CN’s Hybrid Locomotive Pilot Triples in Size
CANADA: The CN hybrid locomotive programme now includes three units under testing, while two more yard locomotives are scheduled for conversion by the end of 2026.
Hudson Bay Railway Maps a Path to Heavier Trains
CANADA: SYSTRA Canada has begun a Hudson Bay Railway capacity study to identify infrastructure upgrades needed for heavier trains and growing freight traffic to the Port of Churchill.
Aurizon Network’s EBIT Climbs 10% to $640M
AUSTRALIA: The part of Aurizon that doesn't haul a single tonne of coal — it just charges other trains to use its tracks — grew its earnings faster than the company's freight operations did in the past fiscal year.
Titagarh Deliberately Caps Wagon Output at 650
INDIA: Titagarh Rail Systems could build up to 1,000 freight wagons a month if it wanted to — instead, it's deliberately holding output to 600-650 units, betting that a mega-tender still working its way through Indian Railways will make the wait worthwhile.
Aurizon’s BMA Coal Contract Could Run to 2040
AUSTRALIA: Nearly a quarter of all the coal Aurizon hauls across Queensland moves for a single customer — and that relationship just got locked in for potentially the next 14 years.
Portland Detonates Centennial Mills Water Tower
USA: Railway Supply previously reported on the freight-safety standoff between Portland and Union Pacific over the fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse; the demolition itself finally began Monday, Aug. 17, with a controlled explosion rather than the crane work that had marked the site's first week of preparation.
India’s First Freight Vande Bharat Hits 145 km/h
INDIA: India's first Vande Bharat-based freight train reached 145 km/h on the very first day of its trial run — a speed few of the country's own passenger expresses can match, let alone conventional freight, which typically tops out at 60-70 km/h.
Georgia’s Appalachian Port Posts Record July
USA: Georgia's Appalachian Regional Port just posted its busiest July on record — an acceleration that comes weeks after Railway Supply reported the same inland terminal's full-year volume record for fiscal 2026.
Portland Presses Union Pacific Over Hazmat Rail Cars
USA: As demolition finally begins on Portland's fire-damaged Centennial Mills warehouse, a separate dispute has surfaced: the city says Union Pacific ran 13 rail cars carrying residual hazardous materials past the unstable building, despite the railroad's earlier promise to restrict such traffic through the collapse zone.
CSX Train Derails Five Cars in Worcester, Mass
USA: Five empty CSX railcars came off the tracks in downtown Worcester late Friday night — and a local streaming camera caught the whole thing on video.
