September 11, 2025 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, September 11, 2025) President Trump has nominated railroad industry consultant Richard Kloster for an initial five-year term as a member of the Surface Transportation Board, and re-nominated current member Michelle Schultz, FreightWaves has...
September 10, 2025 | News, STB, Top News
Surface Transportation Board member Robert E. Primus said on his LinkedIn profile that he received an email from the White House terminating his position on August 28. The move comes a few months before the STB is expected to receive the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern...
August 28, 2025 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains.com, August 28, 2025) President Donald J. Trump yesterday fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert E. Primus, breaking a 2-2 partisan split at the rail regulator while leaving it two members short of full strength just months before it is...
June 12, 2025 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains.com, June 10, 2025) The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger has gone smoothly over the past two years — until a long-planned computer system cutover last month in former Kansas City Southern territory in the U.S. CPKC Chief Operating Officer...
March 17, 2025 | Headlines, Mexico, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, March 14, 2025) The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Green Eagle Railroad’s proposed construction and operation of a 1.3-mile rail line and border crossing in Eagle...
December 11, 2024 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB, Supreme Court
(Source: Newsweek, December 9, 2024) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on a proposed Utah railroad that could significantly increase crude oil transport along the Colorado River. The 88-mile Uinta Basin Railway would connect Utah oil fields to the...
November 15, 2024 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, November 14, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board has taken Union Pacific to task for an ongoing lack of cooperation in a new decision regarding an issue with the railroad’s effort to construct a 6-mile rail line in Arizona’s Maricopa and Pinal...
October 23, 2024 | CPKC, CSX, Headlines, Mexico, STB
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, October 22, 2024) A new CSX and Canadian Pacific Kansas City interchange will connect shippers to Mexico, Texas and the Southeast U.S., according to an Oct. 17 press release. The two railroads received approval from the Surface...
September 26, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 25, 2024) With a dockworkers strike looming at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, Surface Transportation Board Chairman Robert E. Primus has asked BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to provide regulators with information on how they will...
September 24, 2024 | News, PSR, STB, Top News
BLET First Vice President Mark Wallace did not mince his words when he testified at the Surface Transportation Board’s public hearing that focused on the lack of growth and poor service in the freight rail industry. “To be clear, today’s rail service problems and lack...
