The volume of crude moving by rail has skyrocketed since 2008, when U.S. railroads delivered about 9,500 carloads of oil. Last year, according to the AAR, it was 435,560 carloads.

The line project is also a part of the Mississippi Department of Transportation's freight rail improvement plan. Grenada Railroad LLC operates a total 212 miles of rail line between Memphis and ...

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- A study of the impact on the forest products industry of a short line railroad from Waynesboro to Lucedale has been approved by commissioners of the Rail Authority of East ...