Jim Blaze

Industry observers grapple with the complexities of implementing reciprocal switching on U.S. rail networks.

Traffic density matters because it helps managers decide which rail track routes shift from main lines to possibly less viable branch lines.

Rail could leap forward with on-time management of shipper goods if it were bolder and faster at innovating.

Superior market intel can be a game changer.

Important railroad customers are not satisfied with a business-as-usual case.

Regardless of a transport or logistics manager’s objectives, the digital age name of the game is to estimate the dollar savings provided by an application like this.

A few images convey a great deal about the intermodal rail model.

The Rail Pulse members control a potential car fleet universe of about 300,000 units.

Overall, there will be lower rail volume levels continuing into the first quarter of 2021.

Genuflecting toward Wall Street has symbolically become part of the North American Class 1 rail company culture.

Oklahoma looks to have a reasoned approach toward railway change.

It is too early to call the intermodal recovery a long-term win for the railroads.