September 26, 2024 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 4, 2024) As required by law, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) submits annual financial reports and triennial actuarial valuations to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system,...
September 26, 2024 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 19, 2024) As BNSF Railway, CSX, and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent:...
September 26, 2024 | CSX, Fatigue, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains.com, September 24, 2024) The probable cause of a fatal accident involving a conductor trainee in CSX’s yard in Cumberland, Md., last summer was the train’s movement through an unidentified and unmitigated close clearance location, the National...
September 26, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 25, 2024) With a dockworkers strike looming at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, Surface Transportation Board Chairman Robert E. Primus has asked BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to provide regulators with information on how they will...
September 26, 2024 | CN, CPKC, CSX, DOL, DOT, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, September 25, 2024) U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Department of Labor Acting Secretary Julie Su today sent letters to the CEOs of three Class I freight railroads – CPKC, CN, and CSX –...
