May 26, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, May 22, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Surface Transportation Board (STB) will include certain chemical and plastics traffic as a distinct reporting category that the Class I railroads must include in a weekly report about held railcars. The...
May 22, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 20, 2020) Class Is employed 124,430 employees as of mid-April, down 2.69 percent from March and down 13.72 percent from April 2019 levels, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Four employment categories logged...
May 20, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 18, 2020) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) announced last week it will permit informal discussions on its proposed rule in Final Offer Rate Review (FORR), Docket No. EP 755, and comments received in that docket regarding...
May 18, 2020 | CP, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 14, 2020) The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) earlier this month approved Canadian Pacific’s acquisition, through subsidiary Soo Line Corp., of Central Maine & Quebec Railway US Inc. from Fortress Transportation...
May 6, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, May 5, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Shippers are pleased with the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) three decisions aimed at clarifying how the freight railroads should apply demurrage and accessorial charges. Full story: Freight...
May 4, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, STB
(Source: S&P Global Platts, May 1, 2020) HOUSTON — U.S. coal train loadings fell for the fourth straight week to a more than six-year low in the week that ended April 24, despite loadings out of the Illinois Basin and Powder River Basin rising week on week,...
May 4, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Recycling Today, May 4, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) is calling a late April ruling by the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) “a major win for the scrap industry.” ISRI has been making a...
May 4, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, May 1, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has made three decisions defining how the freight railroads can apply demurrage and accessorial charges. Full story: Freight Waves
April 22, 2020 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, April 21, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The number of employees working for the U.S. operations of the Class I railroads dropped 11.9% in March to 127,867 employees, according to data from the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The percentage...
April 8, 2020 | CSX, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, April 7, 2020) The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) yesterday authorized CN subsidiary Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Co.’s (B&LE) acquisition and operation of the Massena rail lines from CSX. Full story:...
