March 3, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: WyoFile, March 2, 2023) The House Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee held a rare executive session Feb. 24 with BNSF Railway officials to discuss railroad challenges, including its plans to improve coal shipments out of the Powder River...
March 3, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 1, 2023) Canadian Pacific has asked federal regulators to approve the appointment of former Federal Railroad Administration administrator and longtime railroad executive Ron Batory as trustee of the CP-Kansas City Southern voting trust....
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 2, 2023) Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a letter to the state’s environmental protection agency expressing concern that dioxins may have been released when some of the chemicals in the damaged railcars...
March 3, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, March 2, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on March 1 announced a national initiative for focused inspections on routes that carry high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs) and other trains carrying large volumes of hazardous material...
March 2, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: The Guardian, February 27, 2023) The PR push is a window into a years-long, multimillion-dollar campaign by America’s biggest railroad corporations to win favor among federal regulators and policymakers and push back against calls for tougher regulation – a...
