May 16, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 13, 2022) NEW YORK — The witness phase of the slugout between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and the Port of Mobile on the other, ended May 12 as its 11th day concluded. It ended not with T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted “whimper”...
May 13, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Press release from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 12, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and...
May 12, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bob Johnston, May 11, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cross-examination of Jim Blair, Amtrak’s senior director of host railroads, consumed the full 8-hour, 28-minute session Monday as the Surface Transportation Board’s hearing on the...
May 10, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, May 6, 2022) NEW YORK — On May 5—a little more than a week after its April 26-27 “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing—the Surface Transportation Board, voting unanimously, has issued updated, more-comprehensive rules for reporting...
May 10, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Grist, May 5, 2022) Ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Deep South in 2005, shredding the region’s railways, it’s been impossible to take a train heading east from New Orleans to the rest of the Gulf Coast. For years, Amtrak has been trying to...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by David Nahass, May 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Unfortunately, Northern American rail continues to look like a first-time performer at “open mike” at the logistics theater: unrehearsed, unpolished and inexperienced. Union Pacific is not...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 6, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Nebraska utility says it will file a rate complaint against Union Pacific for a reciprocal switch involving unit coal trains interchanged with BNSF Railway a few miles from the power plant. Full story: Trains...
May 6, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, STB, Top News, Unions
MAY 6, 2022 — While waiting for a response to our recent request to the National Mediation Board that a proffer of arbitration be issued by the Board to move our contract dispute to the next level, CBC unions participated in two additional days of mediated bargaining...
May 5, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 4, 2022) NEW YORK — Whatever was CSX CEO James M. Foote thinking when he testified before the STB’s “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing April 26? His display of disdain for the agency — in particular, White House-nominated and...
May 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, May 4, 2022) Service disruptions at the Class I railroads have come to a head in recent weeks, and shippers and the unions representing rail workers are clamoring for changes to the freight rail industry of a magnitude to match the disruptions....
