March 30, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Railway Age, March 29, 2022) NEW YORK — “One NGFA member has spent an additional $3 million on secondary freight in the last month to try and keep animals fed. This is additional freight they should not have to purchase, and this reduces available freight to...
March 30, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, March 29, 2022) NEW YORK — Surface Transportation Board-sponsored mediation is the best means “to facilitate a prompt and orderly commencement of Gulf Coast passenger service while protecting the customers and shipping partners that rely on...
March 29, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 28, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The trade group representing grain producers says severe delays on BNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific have forced its members to shut down flour mills as well as feed mills that produce food...
March 29, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Editorial in the Quad City Times, March 27, 2022) DAVENPORT, Iowa — When the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads announced plans to merge last fall, the idea that train traffic would triple through the Quad-Cities was alarming to a lot of...
March 25, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: World-Grain.com, March 25, 2022) ARLINGTON, Va. — Congestion and poor service on the nation’s railroads are symptoms of a network problem affecting entire regions, at times preventing feed deliveries to US livestock producers without backup suppliers. That...
March 24, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 23, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators should toss out Norfolk Southern’s request for trackage rights over Kansas City Southern from Shreveport, La., to the Dallas area as part of the proposed Canadian Pacific-KCS merger, CSX...
March 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, March 17, 2022) NEW YORK — The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on March 16 asked merger partners Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) to address an apparent “inconsistency in the calculation of traffic density numbers” that...
March 18, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 17, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chicago-area commuter rail operator Metra has come out against the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger, telling the Surface Transportation board in a 946-page filing that the merger would bring...
March 17, 2022 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 16, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Railroads and shipper groups squared off over a proposed reciprocal switching rule during a daylong Surface Transportation Board hearing on Tuesday, with railroads warning of dire operational consequences...
March 16, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 15, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has directed Amtrak, CSX, Norfolk Southern Railway and related parties to be prepared to address several issues at the April 4 evidentiary hearing on Amtrak’s proposal to...
