January 31, 2023 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, January 30, 2023) CSX Transportation Inc has lost another key ruling in its antitrust lawsuit seeking greater access to a large Virginia port, after a U.S. judge said he had no power to issue an injunction against rival freight rail operators that...
January 31, 2023 | Amtrak, Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, January 30, 2023) Amtrak in December called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation into “substandard” customer on-time performance for Sunset Limited service between Louisiana and California. Host freight railroad...
January 31, 2023 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, CSX, Headlines
(Source: CNN, January 30, 2023) Long-needed improvements are coming to train travel along the nation’s busy Northeast Corridor, thanks in part to the federal infrastructure funding package that President Joe Biden signed into law in the fall of 2021. The president is...
January 31, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, January 30, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis upheld its conclusion that increased railroad noise levels in some communities would be the greatest environmental impact resulting from the merger between...
January 31, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 30, 2023) Residents evacuated because of a Union Pacific derailment Friday night were allowed to return home Sunday evening, KSLA-TV reports, after leaks in two tank cars were contained. Full story: Trains Magazine
January 31, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: East Idaho News, January 30, 2023) Crews spent Monday morning clearing a train derailment near the Union Pacific train station in Old Town Pocatello. This is the third Union Pacific derailment near Pocatello since June. No injuries were reported. Full story:...
January 31, 2023 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Television station KSL TV, January 30, 2023) The Arizona spike, which was ceremoniously driven in Utah to mark the transcontinental railroad completion in 1869, sold for a little more than $2 million during an auction that closed Thursday, much more than it...
January 30, 2023 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, January 30, 2023) Ulysses S. Grant was still president when workers finished the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which connected Philadelphia and Washington through rail travel for the first time. But 150 years later, the tunnel that runs...
January 30, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 27, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board this week denied four Class Is’ petition to stay a specific requirement of the board’s new small rate case arbitration program. Full story: Progressive...
January 30, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, January 28, 2023) About 130 people in north Louisiana were ordered to evacuate Saturday after a train derailed and at least two cars began leaking hazardous products, state police said. No injuries were reported. Full story: Associated...
