China-Europe freight trains’ eastern corridor exceeds 5,000 trips this year, highlighting resilience of China’s foreign trade

The number of China-Europe Railway Express services running via the eastern corridor has surpassed 5,000 this year, providing strong momentum for supporting China's high-standard opening-up, the ...
The New York Times

With Freight Off the Rails, Rare Open Tracks for Passenger Trains

The brief lockout of freight railway workers gave Via Rail Canada trains a temporary reprieve from their second-class status. By Ian Austen If anyone benefited from the short lockout at the Canadian ...
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5 Of The Biggest Freight Trains On Earth And What They Haul

Like any form of transport, trains come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. For public transportation purposes, more riders mean more fares and more income, and so it's a matter of accommodating as ...
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A Waymo for Freight Trains? This Start-Up CEO Is Working On It

After 20 years as an aerospace engineer, including 13 years at SpaceX, Matt Soule sought a new transportation challenge he could channel into a startup. He chose electric battery autonomous freight ...
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Impacts of Trains Longer Than 7,500 Feet

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is conducting a study of freight trains longer than 7,500 feet using an ad hoc study committee of experts. The period of performance is ...
Reuters

Chinese resumes freight trains with North Korea -foreign ministry

BEIJING, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Freight trains connecting China with North Korea have resumed for the first time since the border lockdown between the two countries in 2020 brought about by COVID-19, the ...