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:...
October 5, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, October 3, 2023) U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., want the Surface Transportation Board to press on with a rulemaking they say could enable shippers to receive better rail service and make the U.S. rail network...
August 25, 2023 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 21, 2023) A three-person panel of judges determined that the Surface Transportation Board’s review of a planned project to construct an 85-mile-long rail line in the Uinta Basin in Utah that would carry crude oil was insufficient and...
August 25, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Progressive Farmer, August 21, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is requiring the BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) to transport coal from Navajo Transitional Energy Company LLC’s (NTEC) Montana mine to Canada for export after NTEC alleged BNSF has...
August 8, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 5, 2023) The Rail Customer Coalition (RCC) informed Freight Waves on Friday that it sent a letter to President Joe Biden this week asking him to renominate STB Chairman Marty Oberman and STB member Patrick Fuchs because some longstanding...
August 4, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Lawsuit, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, August 3, 2023) Western U.S. Class I railway BNSF is suing the Surface Transportation Board for compelling BNSF via a mandate to ship more coal from Navajo Transitional Energy Co.’s (NTEC’s) mine in Montana. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
July 20, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 18, 2023) BNSF Railway is seeking a judicial review of the Surface Transportation Board’s preliminary injunction that orders the railroad to haul more export coal from a Montana mine to tidewater in British Columbia. Full story:...
July 17, 2023 | Amtrak, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Railfan & Railroad Magazine, July 17, 2023) Seven months after Amtrak called on the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to investigate Union Pacific’s handling of the Sunset Limited, the federal regulator announced it would be looking into how the freight...
