May 25, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 25, 2022) NEW YORK — CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS), and the Alabama State Port Authority and its Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks division (collectively, the Port) are again requesting Surface Transportation Board (STB)-sponsored mediation...
May 24, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 23, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The four largest U.S. Class I railroads have told federal regulators that their conductor training programs and hiring pipelines are full as they try to restore service to normal levels amid widespread crew...
May 23, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by Jim Blaze, May 20, 2022) NEW YORK — Let’s admit it, and fix the expectation: U.S. Class I railroads have not experienced robust service recovery. Yet railroad optimism and expectations of satisfied customers persists. Why? If you...
May 23, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 20, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Class I railroads submitted their first batch of expanded performance metrics to federal regulators this week, including a snapshot of on-time performance data. The board on May 6 ordered the railroads to...
May 20, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Editorial published by the Capital Press, May 19, 2022) SALEM, Ore. — This year, an American Farm Bureau analysis showed the seven Class I railroads, which handle 94% of the nation’s freight, had 137,000 unfilled orders for grain cars in the first three...
May 20, 2022 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 19, 2022) NEW YORK — “The Class I railroads recognize that their recent service performance has not met many customers’ expectations,” the Association of American Railroads (AAR) wrote in a May 18 filing to the Surface Transportation Board...
May 17, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Politico, May 16, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the scramble to bring prices back down, one obstacle is slowly garnering more attention: a decimated railroad workforce, which agency officials say is impeding efforts to transport goods and, in doing so, further...
May 16, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 13, 2022) NEW YORK — The witness phase of the slugout between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and the Port of Mobile on the other, ended May 12 as its 11th day concluded. It ended not with T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted “whimper”...
May 13, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Press release from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 12, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and...
May 12, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bob Johnston, May 11, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cross-examination of Jim Blair, Amtrak’s senior director of host railroads, consumed the full 8-hour, 28-minute session Monday as the Surface Transportation Board’s hearing on the...
