July 21, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, Shippers, UP
(Source: Daily Herd Management, July 18, 2022) Rail retains a vital role in the transportation of goods across the U.S., but this year, the 140,000- miles worth of railroad tracks across the country haven’t been immune to the supply chain chaos plaguing U.S....
July 12, 2022 | Headlines, Ports, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Railway Age, July 9, 2022) NEW YORK — Compared with the intense examination to which Class I freight railroads have been subjected by the Surface Transportation Board and other industry stakeholders, dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic was a relatively...
June 23, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 22, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bartlett Grain Co., which opened a grain loading facility on KCS in Jacksonville, Ill., in 2013, says a divestiture to CN would end the single-line service it currently enjoys for grain shipments to Mexico....
June 16, 2022 | Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 15, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Union Pacific has asked federal regulators to dismiss a shipper’s complaint that claims the railroad violated its common-carrier obligations by providing unreliable service and unilaterally reducing local...
May 19, 2022 | Headlines, Shippers
(Source: Trains Magazine story by Chase Gunnoe, May 19, 2022) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Railroads measure key operating metrics through railcar velocities. Class I railroads gauge operating performance by how many miles a railcar travels in a day on its network, the average...
