May 24, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, NS, Short Line
(Source: Freight Waves, May 23, 2022) Georgia Central Railway will service Hyundai Motor Group’s new $5.5 billion electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility near Savannah, Georgia, its parent company Genesee & Wyoming announced Monday. Georgia Central has...
May 23, 2022 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Television station ABC 33/40, May 20, 2022) BESSEMER, Ala. — Bessemer PD’s Lt. Clemons reports Norfolk Southern started moving its trains Friday night around 10:20. All crossings were cleared by 10:40 PM. Frustration was running high in Bessemer where...
May 20, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, UP
(Source: Market Watch, May 19, 2022) NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Transportation Average took another deep dive Thursday, with the biggest drag shifting to the index’s railroad components after downgrades at Citigroup, which cited concerns over a deceleration of demand....
May 19, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, UP
(Source: Associated Press, May 18, 2022) OMAHA, Neb. — A federal appeals court has ruled that details of some of the conversations between the nation’s four largest railroads about their rates can now be included in lawsuits challenging billions of dollars they...
May 16, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 13, 2022) NEW YORK — The witness phase of the slugout between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and the Port of Mobile on the other, ended May 12 as its 11th day concluded. It ended not with T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted “whimper”...
May 13, 2022 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Virginian-Pilot, May 13, 2022) NORFOLK, Va. — A federal jury awarded a UPS driver $300,000 on Thursday for injuries he sustained in a 2019 loading incident caused by a negligent Norfolk Southern Railway employee. The incident, he claimed, nearly crushed him...
May 12, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bob Johnston, May 11, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cross-examination of Jim Blair, Amtrak’s senior director of host railroads, consumed the full 8-hour, 28-minute session Monday as the Surface Transportation Board’s hearing on the...
May 10, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, May 6, 2022) NEW YORK — On May 5—a little more than a week after its April 26-27 “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing—the Surface Transportation Board, voting unanimously, has issued updated, more-comprehensive rules for reporting...
May 10, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Grist, May 5, 2022) Ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Deep South in 2005, shredding the region’s railways, it’s been impossible to take a train heading east from New Orleans to the rest of the Gulf Coast. For years, Amtrak has been trying to...
May 4, 2022 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2022) ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern President Alan Shaw spent his first two days as CEO visiting railroaders across the system and vowing to restore service to normal levels. Full story: Trains Magazine
