May 13, 2024 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 13, 2024) On May 10, Martin Oberman retired from the Surface Transportation Board (STB) as chairman. On the same day, the wheels were set in motion to choose the board’s next chair. President Joe Biden intends to nominate STB...
May 9, 2024 | Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains.com, May 7, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board’s reciprocal switching rule for inadequate rail service is a “missed opportunity,” the National Industrial Transportation League says. The final rule, adopted last week, is designed to incentivize...
May 3, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Surface Transportation Board press release, April 26, 2024) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman announced today that he will retire from the Board on May 10, 2024. He informed President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. of his plans by letter earlier...
April 19, 2024 | Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, April 17, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board today closed the book on its investigation of Union Pacific’s record use of congestion-related embargoes in 2022 – but not before scolding the railroad for failing to comply with board orders and...
April 1, 2024 | Headlines, STB, TTD
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 1, 2024) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman last week appointed 21 members to the board’s newly formed Passenger-Rail Advisory Committee (PRAC). The committee will advise the STB on issues related to the...
March 27, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 22, 2024) The U.S. Class I workforce grew a bit larger last month. As of mid-February, the large railroads employed 123,377 people in the United States, up 0.6% from January’s level and 2.6% from February 2023’s count, according...
March 18, 2024 | Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 15, 2024) The Surface Transportation Board yesterday announced that it denied Union Pacific Railroad’s request to keep certain required, temporary employment-data reporting confidential. Meanwhile, Ancora Holdings Group LLC...
March 5, 2024 | News, PSR, STB
As yet another hedge fund seeks a hostile takeover of a Class I railroad, Surface Transportation Board Member Robert Primus condemned the “scorched-earth” cuts associated with Precision Scheduled Railroading in a guest column published by Progressive Railroading. He...
March 4, 2024 | BNSF, Furloughs, Headlines, NS, PSR, Railroad Safety, STB
(Source: Associated Press, March 1, 2024) The latest rail layoffs this week, combined with an investment fund’s ongoing campaign for control of Norfolk Southern, are renewing concerns among unions and regulators about the effects all the cuts might have on safety and...
March 1, 2024 | FRA, Furloughs, Headlines, STB, UP
Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Amit Bose yesterday told Union Pacific Railroad CEO Jim Vena that the company’s furloughs of maintenance of equipment (MoE) workers jeopardizes the safety of railroad workers and the public. “It has come to the...
