April 26, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Shippers, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 25, 2023) Knight-Swift will shift its U.S.-Mexico intermodal traffic from Union Pacific to CPKC’s new single-line route beginning in May. CPKC and Knight-Swift announced their multi-year agreement today, just four days after...
April 26, 2023 | CEO Pay, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 24, 2023) The publicly traded U.S. Class I railroads are putting more of an emphasis on service and volume growth in the annual incentive plans they offer to their executives. It’s a clear sign, analysts say, that the railroads are...
April 26, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 26, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board will hold a hearing next month to consider a Powder River Basin coal producer’s request for an emergency service order that would require BNSF Railway to handle more volume from the Spring...
April 26, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 25, 2023) Five locomotives and approximately 24 cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Monday morning after a grade-crossing accident with a tractor-trailer truck, a railroad spokesman told KOAM-TV. The train’s crew as not injured, but...
April 25, 2023 | Headlines, Organizing, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, April 24, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a historic first, Amazon drivers and dispatchers in Palmdale, Calif., have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reached a strong tentative agreement...
April 25, 2023 | CN, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: Railway Age, April 24, 2023) In the first quarter of 2023, CN reported revenues of C$4.313 billion, up C$605 million or 16% from first-quarter 2022’s C$3.708 billion. The Class I reported that this first-quarter record “was mainly due to higher fuel surcharge...
April 25, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 24, 2023) Three major freight railroads responded Monday to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger with an agreement to work together on a competing service to carry shipments across North America. Canadian National, Union...
April 25, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 21, 2023) Class Is operating in the United States employed 120,668 people in March, a 0.38% increase over February’s employment level and a 4.88% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Five of...
April 25, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Associated Press, April 24, 2023) Almost 3 months after a fiery Norfolk Southern train derailment blackened the skies, sent residents fleeing and thrust East Palestine into a national debate over rail safety, residents say they are still living in limbo....
April 25, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: Railway Age column by Grady C. Cothen Jr., April 23, 2023) The June 2022 White Paper supplemented here was devoted to “management of in-train forces.” This is an issue for trains of virtually all lengths and tonnages, but longer trains present special...
