July 5, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age analysis by Jim Blaze, July 1, 2022) NEW YORK — The four largest U.S. freight railroad companies—BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific—all reported, per the request of the Surface Transportation Board, supplemental information about their...
July 5, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, July 5, 2022) The second half of 2022 is underway, and freight rail stakeholders will be watching over the next several weeks and months how the railroads untangle service issues that seemed to be persisting through June, according to data...
July 1, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 30, 2022) The Virginia Railway Express (VRE) will contribute $119.2 million to support Virginia’s purchase of rail right-of-way in the Interstate 95 corridor from CSX. Full story: Progressive...
June 24, 2022 | CSX, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 23, 2022) CSX and Chicago officials earlier this week held a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion of the 63rd Street intermodal container storage yard. The more than $25 million facility, expected to begin operations in...
June 17, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, June 14, 2022) NEW YORK — Many have been waiting for the ongoing battle at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern and the Port of Mobile on the other (Docket No. FD-36496) to resume on Monday,...
June 15, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 13, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board, making clear its unhappiness with service recovery plans filed by the four largest U.S. Class I railroads, will require those railroads to correct deficiencies in service...
June 15, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 13, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board late last week ordered board-sponsored meditation in the case involving Amtrak’s application to relaunch passenger-rail service on CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway tracks in the...
June 9, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 9, 2022) Overall on-time performance for the big four U.S. Class I railroads has fallen from a pre-pandemic average of 85% to just 67% in the last week of May 2022, as crew shortages continue to plague rail service. The extent of the...
June 2, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, Short Line, STB
(Source: Railway Age, June 1, 2022) NEW YORK — CSX on June 1 reported completion of its Pan Am Railways, Inc., acquisition, six weeks after the Class I railroad received regulatory approval from the Surface Transportation Board (STB). Transaction terms were not...
June 1, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 1, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak’s continuing effort to gain access to data relating to freight traffic on the route of its proposed Gulf Coast passenger service has drawn strong protest from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern....
