September 22, 2022 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, September 21, 2022) While U.S. carloads rose for Week 37 (ending Sept. 17, 2022), intermodal volume fell, bringing total traffic down compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported on Sept. 21. Traffic...
September 21, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 20, 2022) Class Is employed 117,014 workers in the United States as of mid-August, a 0.52% increase from July’s employment level and a 2.26% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Five...
September 21, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 20, 2022) The trade group representing coal mining operators has asked federal regulators to take action regarding erratic rail service, particularly in the east on CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern. Mines have had to curtail...
September 21, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: The Hill, September 21, 2022) But business groups argue that there is more to be done to address poor rail service, which they say has magnified red-hot inflation. Retailers, farmers, carmakers and other rail customers are lobbying Congress to pass...
September 20, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: CNN, September 20, 2022) The fact that there is not a freight railroad strike happening this week is a huge win for the US economy and its still struggling supply chain. But that doesn’t mean that the freight railroads are providing good service to...
September 20, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 19, 2022) In system notices sent last week, CSX said it was seeking train and engine crews to temporarily transfer to Buffalo, Syracuse, and Selkirk, N.Y., as well as West Springfield, Mass., and Philadelphia. Train service...
September 20, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 19, 2022) Although they welcomed the new tentative agreement between the railroads and labor unions, the industry’s customers are calling on Congress to help resolve other freight-rail problems that continue to harm the U.S....
September 19, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: Nebraska Public Media, September 16, 2022) A tentative agreement between union workers and railroad companies reached earlier this week means Nebraska’s harvest may continue without a sudden slowdown. While the tentative agreement means Nebraska’s...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, Hi-Viz, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: Slate, September 15, 2022) President Joe Biden has announced a tentative agreement to avert the disruption and the body blow it would have caused the economy and our supply chains. The deal isn’t final —workers will soon vote on it — but, nonetheless, it’s a...
September 16, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR
(Source: National Public Radio, September 15, 2022) Like so many essential workers in the pandemic, the engineers and conductors who operate the nation’s freight trains have had it. Full story: www.npr.org
