November 3, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 1, 2022) The parties involved in the fight over Amtrak Gulf Coast service want to make one more effort to settle the matter without resuming their hearing before the Surface Transportation Board. Full story: Trains...
October 31, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: www.al.com, October 29, 2022) A final decision could be coming in Amtrak’s quest to restart passenger rail service connecting Mobile to New Orleans. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a news release Friday, set a Dec. 7 date for a voting conference...
October 31, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 28, 2022) Citing ongoing service problems at the big four U.S. Class I railroads, federal regulators today ordered BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific to continue reporting expanded performance...
October 28, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Governing.com, October 28, 2022) The last passenger train between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., ran more than 15 years ago — before Hurricane Katrina sent a massive storm surge barreling into the Gulf Coast, damaging roads and infrastructure and transforming...
October 26, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 19, 2022) Class Is employed 117,582 workers in the United States as of mid-September, a 0.49% increase from August employment levels and a 2.95% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Five of...
October 26, 2022 | BNSF, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Union Pacific has taken issue with a video that Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern showed federal regulators of a KCS grain train “breezing through Houston.” UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that...
October 26, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 24, 2022) Canadian National has asked federal regulators to condition the approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on the granting of trackage rights over the KCS line linking Springfield, Ill., with Kansas City...
October 18, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 17, 2022) Canadian National is challenging some conclusions federal regulators reached in their draft environmental review of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. Full story: Trains Magazine
October 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, October 5, 2022) The public hearing before the Surface Transportation Board on the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern consisted of three days of testimony spanning over 25 hours on why or why not the merger should...
October 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, October 17, 2022) How much responsibility should Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern bear to keep international gateways open and keep the rail networks through Chicago and Houston fluid? That question was one of five themes explored...
