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...
September 18, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains.com, September 18, 2024) At the opening of today’s Surface Transportation Board hearing on the lack of rail freight volume growth, Vice Chair Karen Hedlund said she was still struck by what she heard the day before from analysts and shippers and Class...
August 27, 2024 | News, STB, Top News
Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Robert Primus has called a public hearing on September 16 and 17 to gather information about how the freight rail industry has grown and intends to grow in the future. STB is the federal agency charged with economic...
August 16, 2024 | Headlines, Long Trains, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains.com, August 15, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board will hear from more than three dozen participants during its two-day hearing next month regarding recent trends and strategies for growth in freight railroad traffic. The hearing, set to begin at...
July 23, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains.com, July 23, 2024) In the west, Union Pacific has 146 more engineers and conductors than a year ago and BNSF Railway has added 57 engineers and conductors, according to labor data provided to the Surface Transportation Board last month. As of June,...
July 17, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: The Load Star, July 16, 2024) Robert Primus, the new chairman of the US Surface Transportation Board (STB), has called in the CEOs of the North American Class I rail carriers to discuss the decline of rail traffic and how to revive it. Citing a 28% decline in...
