December 13, 2021 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 8, 2021) A federal judge yesterday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker in Georgia issued...
December 13, 2021 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, December 7, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Two rail unions want a federal court to dismiss BNSF’s lawsuit over its ability to implement a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Instead, they want the court to compel the railroad to negotiate any vaccine...
December 13, 2021 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, December 3, 2021) PACIFIC JUNCTION, Iowa — Two crew members are reported to have been injured in a December 3 collision of two BNSF Railway trains at Pacific Junction, about 18 miles south of Omaha, Nebraska. Full story: Trains...
November 30, 2021 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: WFAA, November 27, 2021) FORT WORTH, Texas — The facility, formerly known as GE Transportation, is one of two in the nation that assembles locomotives. Full story: WFAA
November 23, 2021 | BNSF, News, NS, UP
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, November 22 — On November 17, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois consolidated multiple lawsuits that had been filed in the Illinois federal court, including ones by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen...
November 18, 2021 | BNSF, Canada, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, November 17, 2021) NEW YORK — Food and toilet paper have been stripped from grocery store shelves across British Columbia as panic buying follows the realization Wednesday, Nov. 17 that the previous day’s Biblical flooding means road and rail...
November 18, 2021 | BNSF, Canada, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 18, 2021) SUMAS, Wash. — Residents of this small U.S. city along the Canadian border were assessing damage from flooding that hit an estimated three quarters of homes, as Washington state and British Columbia tried to dry out from...
November 18, 2021 | BNSF, CP, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 17, 2021) BNSF Railway Co. has asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to extend its the proposed timeline for making comments on or objections to Canadian Pacific’s application to acquire Kansas City Southern....
November 16, 2021 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Iowa Public Radio, November 15, 2021) MONTROSE, Iowa — The process of cleaning up fuel and coal spilled into the Mississippi River following a train derailment in southeast Iowa is well underway, according to the state Department of Natural Resources. Several...
November 15, 2021 | BNSF, CN, CP, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 12, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — BNSF Railway and Canadian National have raised issues with federal regulators’ timeline for review of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. BNSF seeks more time regarding Mexico...
