November 1, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, October 31, 2022) BNSF Railway (BNSF) announced Oct. 28 that its operational performance “continues to exhibit strong resiliency despite confronting multiple service challenges over the past few weeks.” Full story: Railway...
October 31, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 28, 2022) Citing ongoing service problems at the big four U.S. Class I railroads, federal regulators today ordered BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific to continue reporting expanded performance...
October 26, 2022 | BNSF, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Union Pacific has taken issue with a video that Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern showed federal regulators of a KCS grain train “breezing through Houston.” UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that...
October 18, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMIZ, October 17, 2022) COLUMBIA, Mo. — Amtrak and BNSF are asking judges to move at least three cases over a deadly summer train crash because too few people live in Chariton County. The train derailed after hitting a dump truck at a...
October 17, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, October 13, 2022) A jury has ordered freight railway giant BNSF Railway Co to pay $228 million to tens of thousands of truck drivers after finding the company collected the drivers’ fingerprints without consent. Full story:...
October 4, 2022 | BNSF, Contract Agreement, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, October 4 — On September 30, an overwhelming majority of participating BLET members ratified an implementing agreement and Oregon Short Line Protective Agreement with BNSF regarding its resumption of service on the Montana Rail Link. In January,...
October 4, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 3, 2022) It is in Tucson, Arizona, that the BNSF Railway constructed its Truxton Natural Flyover, allowing trains to change main tracks to take advantage of more favorable grades when coming from Needles, Calif., while remaining...
October 3, 2022 | BNSF, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 30, 2022) Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern executives say there’s plenty of capacity in Houston to handle the eight additional trains per day they’ll run through the busy terminal within three years after their merger. Full...
October 3, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 1, 2022) BNSF Railway has announced plans for what it is calling the first master-planned rail facility built by a Class I railroad — costing more than $1.5 billion and including a rail yard, intermodal facility, and warehouses for...
October 3, 2022 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Billings Gazette, October 1, 2022) A BNSF freight train derailed late Friday night outside of Bridger, and dozens of crew members have been onsite around the clock clearing the debris. Although neither of the two people onboard the train were harmed, an...
