May 10, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, May 6, 2022) NEW YORK — On May 5—a little more than a week after its April 26-27 “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing—the Surface Transportation Board, voting unanimously, has issued updated, more-comprehensive rules for reporting...
May 10, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Grist, May 5, 2022) Ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Deep South in 2005, shredding the region’s railways, it’s been impossible to take a train heading east from New Orleans to the rest of the Gulf Coast. For years, Amtrak has been trying to...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by David Nahass, May 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Unfortunately, Northern American rail continues to look like a first-time performer at “open mike” at the logistics theater: unrehearsed, unpolished and inexperienced. Union Pacific is not...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 6, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Nebraska utility says it will file a rate complaint against Union Pacific for a reciprocal switch involving unit coal trains interchanged with BNSF Railway a few miles from the power plant. Full story: Trains...
May 6, 2022 | Contract Negotiations, National Negotiations 2019, News, STB, Unions
MAY 6, 2022 — While waiting for a response to our recent request to the National Mediation Board that a proffer of arbitration be issued by the Board to move our contract dispute to the next level, CBC unions participated in two additional days of mediated bargaining...
May 5, 2022 | CSX, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age, May 4, 2022) NEW YORK — Whatever was CSX CEO James M. Foote thinking when he testified before the STB’s “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” hearing April 26? His display of disdain for the agency — in particular, White House-nominated and...
May 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, May 4, 2022) Service disruptions at the Class I railroads have come to a head in recent weeks, and shippers and the unions representing rail workers are clamoring for changes to the freight rail industry of a magnitude to match the disruptions....
May 4, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by Jim Blaze, May 2, 2022) NEW YORK — While this career-focused investigative reporter considerers the pros and cons offered in Washington D.C., I’m still trying to root for the rail freight growth and recovery success. However,...
May 3, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Farmer, May 2, 2022) Over 25 rail-shipper groups, representing all industries using rail cars to ship products, and all rail-worker unions gave the Surface Transportation Board (STB) no-holds-barred testimonies during the Urgent Issues in Freight...
April 29, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 28, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Utilities are worried that the slowdown in coal deliveries could threaten U.S. electricity supply and destabilize the power grid. Chemical producers say erratic rail service has forced them to curtail...
