April 27, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 26, 2023) CPKC’s first new service — a pair of intermodal trains linking Chicago and Mexico — will launch on May 11, carrying containers from new customers Schneider and Knight-Swift. Daily hotshots 180 and 181 will link Chicago with...
April 27, 2023 | DOL, Headlines
(Source: Roll Call, April 26, 2023) The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines (11-10) Wednesday to advance Julie Su’s nomination to be Labor secretary, with several senators’ floor votes still in question. Full story: Roll...
April 27, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Freight Waves, April 26, 2023) Norfolk Southern officials are hoping for service improvements in the second half of 2023 following a first half marred by a number of prominent train derailments, most notably the February derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, of...
April 27, 2023 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Associated Press, April 27, 2023) Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San Bernardino and other California cities. They run on diesel, a more powerful...
April 26, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Editorial in the Columbus Dispatch, April 23, 2023) The nation’s attention has waned, but the needs of the people impacted by the derailment persists. So has the call to strengthen regulations to prevent other tragedies as trains get bigger and longer...
