May 3, 2023 | Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2023) Norfolk Southern yesterday sought regulatory approval for its acquisition of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, the municipally owned railroad that forms the 338.2-mile Chattanooga-Cincinnati backbone of NS’s key corridor linking...
May 1, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, April 28, 2023) Union Pacific (UP) on April 27 submitted a year-to-date progress report on embargoes, inventory management and system fluidity to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which last year ordered the Class I to explain its...
April 26, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 26, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board will hold a hearing next month to consider a Powder River Basin coal producer’s request for an emergency service order that would require BNSF Railway to handle more volume from the Spring...
April 25, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 21, 2023) Class Is operating in the United States employed 120,668 people in March, a 0.38% increase over February’s employment level and a 4.88% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Five of...
April 13, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: The Load Star, April 13, 2023) As the North American model of railroading comes under increased regulatory scrutiny, forwarders are making their own call for change to precision scheduling. Full story: The Load Star
March 28, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, March 23, 2023) Federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern on March 15. The decision is effective April 14 and will form a new rail carrier to be called Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). In...
March 28, 2023 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, March 24, 2023) CN’s request regarding conditional approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on the sale of KCS’s Springfield Line to CN has been denied by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which on March 23 provided...
March 23, 2023 | Employment Data, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 22, 2023) Class Is operating in the United States employed 120,210 people in February, a 0.81% increase over January’s employment levels and a 5.19% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data....
March 17, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, STB
(Source: The New Republic, March 15, 2023) While workers and regulators aim to get a hold on a runaway industry driven by a practice known as precision scheduled railroading, or PSR, that has cut jobs and made trains bigger and bigger — thus making the whole industry...
March 17, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 16, 2023) With Norfolk Southern’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, heightening public concern about rail safety, federal regulators went out of their way on Wednesday to explain that their approval of the Canadian...
