September 16, 2021 | CN, CP, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 15, 2021) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The four-month battle for Kansas City Southern is officially over. KCS and Canadian National ripped up their $33.6 billion merger agreement today, 15 days after the Surface Transportation Board denied...
September 16, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, September 15, 2021) NEW YORK — Total U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Sept. 11, 2021, was 468,610 carloads and intermodal units, a 1.3% decline from the same point last year, with intermodal losses offsetting carload gains, reported the...
September 16, 2021 | BNSF, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, September 15, 2021) NEW YORK — A Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report says vandalism may have caused the derailment of a BNSF train in Custer, Wash., back in December. The FRA, however, has not cleared BNSF of any...
September 16, 2021 | Headlines, UP
(Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency press release, September 15, 2021) SEATTLE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled an enforcement action with the Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act violations near the Columbia River in...
September 16, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: San Antonio Express-News, September 15, 2021) SAN ANTONIO, Texas — President Biden’s trillion-dollar American Jobs Plan is still chugging through Congress, and includes billions in funding to expand intercity passenger rail. If signed into law, $66...
