August 4, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Television station WQAD, August 3, 2022) DAVENPORT, Iowa — The merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern continues to gain traction in the Quad Cities. The City of Davenport is expected to vote on a $10 million agreement on Aug. 10 that could...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, National Negotiations 2019, PSR, STB
(Source: Bloomberg, August 3, 2022) U.S. freight railroads are in a bit of a predicament, and it’s not just because they are going down to the wire on labor contract negotiations with their 115,000 workers. Large railroads, including Union Pacific Corp. and Warren...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, Legislation, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 2, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board would get more teeth under a shipper-friendly bill that would reauthorize the agency that regulates freight railroads. The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act, introduced Tuesday, would give...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, Legislation, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee press release, August 2, 2022) Today, Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ), Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure...
August 3, 2022 | Headlines, Legislation, PSR, Shippers, STB
(Source: American Chemistry Council press release, August 2, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Chemistry Council (ACC) welcomes the introduction of the Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act and calls on members of Congress to support its passage. Earlier this...
August 2, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 29, 2022) The launch of Amtrak Gulf Coast service without infrastructure improvements would cause “immediate and future impairment to freight service that is unreasonable under any definition,” CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern...
August 2, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 1, 2022) Amtrak late last week filed with the Surface Transportation Board a supplemental brief and evidence in the railroad’s quest to relaunch passenger-rail service along the Gulf Coast. In its latest filing with the STB,...
July 29, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 29, 2022) As of mid-June, U.S. Class Is employed 116,251 people, a 0.41% increase compared with employment levels in mid-May and a 0.28% increase from June 2021’s level, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Four...
July 29, 2022 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 28, 2022) Canadian National calls an Amtrak proposal that would give it dispatching control over CN lines with poor passenger performance “an outrageously self-serving recipe” that would “cause profound harm to freight railroads, freight...
July 27, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 26, 2022) U.S. lawmakers from Illinois and suburban government officials yesterday announced their opposition to the current terms of the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. Full story: Progressive...
