January 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Headlines
(Source: Star Herald, January 5, 2023) Bill introductions for 2023 opened in the Legislature Thursday with western Nebraska lawmakers making good on promises to reintroduce several bills with potential statewide impact. North Platte Sen. Mike Jacobson, appointed last...
January 4, 2023 | 2-man Crews, CP-KCS Merger, FRA, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, January 3, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board’s regulatory to-do list, train crew sizes and merger conditions related to Canadian Pacific’s acquisition of Kansas City Southern are just some of the big issues that rail industry stakeholders...
December 21, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, UP
(Source: North Platte Bulletin, December 20, 2022) Union Pacific wants to launch a pilot program, replacing conductors aboard freight trains with what the company calls “ground-based expeditors.” UP maintains that the conductor’s job to repair trains when it is...
December 19, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Editorial from the North Platte Telegraph, December 18, 2022) Quite frankly, we have yet to hear railroads indicate that anything else matters to them but the amount of money they can save by employing (presumably fewer) “expediters” rather than on-board...
December 19, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, December 16, 2022) The big six Class I railroads are not of one mind regarding taking conductors out of the locomotive cab and redeploying them to pickup trucks. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern told the Federal Railroad Administration this...
December 16, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Freight Waves, December 15, 2022) Railroads and unions gave conflicting views during a hearing by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on a proposed rulemaking that would require freight trains generally to have at least two crew members in the...
December 16, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, December 14, 2022) Union Pacific is ready to launch pilot programs that will test the feasibility of redeploying conductors from locomotive cabs to ground-based positions, the railroad told the Federal Railroad Administration today during a...
December 15, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: CNN, December 14, 2022) When a freight train travels across the country, two people are in the cab of the locomotive working to keep the train, its often hazardous and flammable contents, and the communities they are passing through, all safe. Now the...
November 4, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, November 3, 2022) More than nine years after the horrific derailment of a crude oil unit train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec that claimed 47 lives and led to new regulations for railroad hazmat tank cars, the Government of Canada...
October 31, 2022 | 2-man Crews, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 28, 2022) The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday announced it will hold a hearing Dec. 14 to accept public comments on its proposed rulemaking that would establish minimum safety requirements for the size of train...
