August 2, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Daily Kos, July 29, 2022) Supply chain problems could get much, much worse in September if 115,000 railroad workers go on strike. The workers have gone more than two years without a contract, dealing with one cut after another, including job cuts that have...
August 2, 2022 | Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Track & Structures opinion column by David C. Lester, July 25, 2022) While the pandemic had some impact, I believe our current situation is primarily the result of the industry having Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) thrown back in its face....
July 29, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 29, 2022) As of mid-June, U.S. Class Is employed 116,251 people, a 0.41% increase compared with employment levels in mid-May and a 0.28% increase from June 2021’s level, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Four...
July 29, 2022 | CN, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, PSR, Quarterly Income
(Source: Freight Waves, July 28, 2022) Deploying precision scheduled railroading (PSR) is an art and a process, and the operational model shouldn’t be blamed for poor rail service, Canadian Pacific President and CEO Keith Creel told investors during a second-quarter...
July 29, 2022 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, July 27, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending July 23, 2022. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 498,901...
July 28, 2022 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, July 27, 2022) U.S. rail traffic for the week ending July 23, 2022 (Week 29) was 498,901 carloads and intermodal units, down 0.8% from the same week last year. Total carloads were 232,565, up 1.1%, while U.S. intermodal volume of 266,336...
July 28, 2022 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 27, 2022) Norfolk Southern has resumed hump operations at its classification yards in Macon, Ga., and Bellevue, Ohio, as part of the new operating plan it began rolling out last month. Both yards were converted to flat-switching...
July 28, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 27, 2022) BNSF Railway’s embargo of certain types of carload traffic bound for California has been extended into August as its Southern Transcon remains congested in the Southwest. The embargo, which took effect on June 27, applies to...
July 26, 2022 | Headlines, PSR
(Source: Ag Web Farm Journal, July 22, 2022) Containers are piling up around the country and trains are waiting for longer stretches at depots, the Wall Street Journal reports, frustrating industrial shippers and exacerbating delays across U.S. supply chains. Railroad...
July 26, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 26, 2022) Sometimes big stories hide in plain sight. One of them is the jaw-dropping way BNSF Railway has outgrown the other three big U.S. Class I railroads. Draw a line from 1996 to 2019 and you’ll see that all of the growth on the Big...
