March 31, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, March 29, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 25, 2023. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 469,958...
March 30, 2023 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: ABC News, March 30, 2023) The incident was reported at around 1 a.m. CT. Multiple tankers of a train operated by BNSF Railway derailed and caught fire on the western edge of Raymond, a town in Minnesota’s southwestern Kandiyohi County that has a...
March 30, 2023 | Headlines, PSR
(Source: Reuters, March 29, 2023) Beware the company, or industry, with a one-track mind. General Electric had one for years, consumed by Six Sigma, whose gospel the U.S. conglomerate helped spread to boardrooms far and wide. At Kraft Heinz, the cost-saving dogma was...
March 30, 2023 | Amtrak, Contract Negotiations, Headlines, Unions
(Source: TCU & Shop-Craft Coalition press release, March 24, 2023) On Thursday, March 23 – after 15 months of negotiations – the TCU & Shop-Craft Coalition reached a tentative agreement with Amtrak to settle each organization’s respective Section 6 notices for...
March 30, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 29, 2023) For the week ending March 25, 2023, U.S. rail traffic fell 7.5% from the prior-year period, pulled down by both carloads (dipping 0.2%) and intermodal volume (declining 13.9%), according to the Association of American Railroads...
