November 17, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains.com, November 16, 2023) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman — who used his position as a bully pulpit to criticize railroads and encourage them to reach their potential by hauling more of the nation’s freight — announced today that...
November 16, 2023 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 13, 2023) The committee will provide nonbinding advice and recommendations on passenger-rail service issues, including those impacting intercity- and commuter-rail passengers and operators, government entities, freight-rail...
November 10, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains.com, November 9, 2023) BNSF Railway and Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) have reached a settlement that will end the coal miner’s common carrier complaint against the railroad. The companies today asked the Surface Transportation Board to suspend...
November 9, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains.com, November 8, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board received numerous comments on its proposed reciprocal switching rule this week, with predictable results: Railroads say the rule goes too far. Shippers say it doesn’t go far enough. And rail labor...
November 9, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, November 8, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) comment period closed November 7 for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) it issued this fall regarding reciprocal switching for inadequate service. Many shipper and government...
November 6, 2023 | CPKC, CSX, Headlines, Short Line, STB
(Source: Trains.com, November 3, 2023) Federal regulators have accepted the applications Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX Transportation have filed seeking permission to acquire and operate Genesee & Wyoming short line Meridian & Bigbee. The supplemental...
November 6, 2023 | Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, November 3, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board has denied Union Pacific’s request to dismiss a common-carrier case filed by a small shipper in the Twin Cities. In a 3-2 decision issued Thursday, the STB also ordered the shipper, Sanimax, to...
November 2, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, November 2, 2023) The average number of employees working for the U.S.-based operations of the Class I railroads for the first three quarters of 2023 is roughly flat to lower compared with the same period in 2020, according to data collected by...
November 1, 2023 | CPKC, CSX, Headlines, NS, Short Line, STB
(Source: Trains.com, October 27. 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX Transportation told the Surface Transportation Board today that there’s no reason to grant Norfolk Southern’s request for a delay in review of their proposals to create a new through route...
October 26, 2023 | CPKC, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains.com, October 26, 2023) Norfolk Southern has asked federal regulators to suspend review of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX Transportation proposal to create a new through route linking the Southeast and Mexico via Myrtlewood, Ala. Full story:...
