March 17, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, STB
(Source: The New Republic, March 15, 2023) While workers and regulators aim to get a hold on a runaway industry driven by a practice known as precision scheduled railroading, or PSR, that has cut jobs and made trains bigger and bigger — thus making the whole industry...
March 17, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: Bloomberg Law, March 16, 2023) Rail operator Norfolk Southern Corp. and its top executives are facing a securities class action in the wake of last month’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, alleging the company misled investors by ignoring the safety...
March 17, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: NBC News, March 16, 2023) A review of safety data by NBC News showed that from 2018 to 2022, Norfolk Southern averaged 0.88 accidents per million miles, which is slightly above the average of the country’s six other Class-I freight railroads over the same...
March 17, 2023 | Headlines, Unions, War on Workers
(Source: People’s World, March 16, 2023) Michigan’s pro-worker Democratic sweep last November swept out the Wolverine State’s corporate Republican-passed right-to-work (for less) laws in March. Democratic legislative leaders, who took “trifecta” power in the election,...
March 17, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 16, 2023) With Norfolk Southern’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, heightening public concern about rail safety, federal regulators went out of their way on Wednesday to explain that their approval of the Canadian...
