March 28, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: Railway Age, March 23, 2023) CSX on March 22 reported reaching an agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) for paid sick leave. According to CSX, this is the seventh agreement between the Class I and rail unions in recent...
March 28, 2023 | CP, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Television station KVLV, March 27, 2023) More than two dozen Canadian Pacific train cars derailed with some spilling hazardous material in Richland County. Canadian Pacific’s preliminary investigation finds a broken rail was the cause of the derailment. Full...
March 23, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Congressional Hearing, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety
(Source: Associated Press, March 22, 2023) A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads emerged Wednesday as senators heard fresh testimony on the fiery hazardous train derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Full...
March 23, 2023 | Employment Data, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 22, 2023) Class Is operating in the United States employed 120,210 people in February, a 0.81% increase over January’s employment levels and a 5.19% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data....
March 23, 2023 | Headlines, Paid Sick Leave, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, March 22, 2023) On the heels of deals at other Class I railroads, Union Pacific has reached agreements with eight unions to provide workers up to seven paid sick days. The agreement goes into effect April 1. According to a prepared statement...
March 23, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 22, 2023) U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 18 (Week 11) dipped 9.4% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported March 22. U.S. Class I railroads hauled a total of 453,500 carloads and...
March 23, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, March 21, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board examined and tested pressure relief devices removed from the five vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) tank cars...
March 23, 2023 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, March 22, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on March 22 released a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) to expand occupational noise exposure regulations and require railroads to provide locomotive crews with...
March 23, 2023 | BNSF, EPA, Headlines, UP
(Source: Editorial in the Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2023) Communities near railyards, ports and other freight corridors have long been hit hard by air pollution from dirty, old locomotives. These massive, track-mounted vehicles, which use a diesel generator to...
March 23, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, March 21, 2023) A Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Alabama earlier this month lacked required alignment control couplers for two of its locomotives and a company inspection did not identify their absence, federal investigators said...
