August 8, 2024 | Amtrak, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Trains.com, August 7, 2024) Rail shipper groups say the poor on-time performance of all 15 Amtrak long-distance trains — which prompted the Justice Department to file a lawsuit last week against Norfolk Southern for its handling of the Crescent — is merely a...
July 31, 2024 | Amtrak, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS, PSR, Train Length
(Source: Associated Press, July 30, 2024) Norfolk Southern railroad has been causing chronic delays for Amtrak between New York and New Orleans by forcing the passenger trains to wait while its massive freight trains pass, the federal government said in a lawsuit...
May 23, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Lawsuit
(Source: Associated Press, May 22, 2024) A federal judge has signed off on the $600 million class action settlement over last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio, but many people who live near East Palestine are still wondering how much they...
February 8, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, Lawsuit, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: Television station KSTP, February 7, 2024) As the country focuses on rail safety following derailments here and around the country, Don Sanders’ recordings raise new questions about internal operations at the BNSF Railway Sanders spent nearly a decade with...
December 21, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Lawsuit
(Source: Reuters, December 14, 2023) Conservation groups on Thursday sued BNSF Railway Co., accusing the railroad of operating trains that are striking and killing grizzly bears in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds...
November 17, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Lawsuit
(Source: Associated Press, November 14, 2023) A business owner with companies near where a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in February has sued the railroad for $500 million, saying most of his eastern Ohio companies have remained closed and he hasn’t...
October 5, 2023 | Headlines, Lawsuit, UP
(Source: Associated Press, October 2, 2023) The federal government has joined more than a dozen former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind. The lawsuit focuses on a vision test...
August 4, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS
(Source: Trains.com, August 3, 2023) Norfolk Southern, in a lawsuit filed this week in Delaware, accuses CSX Transportation of hampering its access to New England by repeatedly violating the operating agreements related to CSX’s 2022 acquisition of regional Pan Am...
August 4, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Lawsuit, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 3, 2023) Western U.S. Class I railway BNSF is suing the Surface Transportation Board for compelling BNSF via a mandate to ship more coal from Navajo Transitional Energy Co.’s (NTEC’s) mine in Montana. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
August 4, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines, Lawsuit
(Source: Reuters, August 3, 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City, formed in April when Canadian Pacific Railway merged with Kansas City Southern, has been sued by bondholders for failing to repay more than $1 billion after missing a deadline tied to the merger. In a...
