July 22, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 20, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board on Wednesday denied a California poultry and feed producer’s request for an extension of an emergency service order covering Union Pacific grain trains. Full story: Trains...
July 21, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 19, 2022) Pressure to reduce terminal dwell figures has prompted some Union Pacific yards to routinely depart trains that include misrouted cars simply to get them moving, a UP engineer alleges in a letter sent to federal regulators....
July 21, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, July 19, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board has been receiving testimony on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern — and it’s been an earful. Full story: Freight Waves
July 20, 2022 | CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 15, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern — responding to critics, skeptics, and opponents — told federal regulators this week that their proposed merger is in the public interest and should be approved. Full...
July 20, 2022 | Amtrak, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 14, 2022) NEW YORK — Amtrak is calling on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to deny CN’s conditions to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger because they do “not satisfy the Board’s ‘operationally feasible’ requirement” and...
July 20, 2022 | BNSF, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 14, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Projected traffic increases from the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger will put the critical Houston terminal into gridlock, BNSF Railway has warned federal regulators this week, citing a new...
July 6, 2022 | FRA, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Whether the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will suffer from a June 30 Supreme Court (SCOTUS) trimming of regulatory agency authority to interpret their own governing statutes...
July 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 5, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board has directed Union Pacific to continue providing priority service and reports on that service for a California feed and poultry company under an emergency order issued in June....
July 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 1, 2022) Surface Transportation Board members and other federal officials continue to hear from rail shippers and other rail industry stakeholders about ongoing freight-rail service issues and the supply-chain crisis. This week,...
July 5, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age analysis by Jim Blaze, July 1, 2022) NEW YORK — The four largest U.S. freight railroad companies—BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific—all reported, per the request of the Surface Transportation Board, supplemental information about their...
