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 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 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 5, 2022) MUSKOGEE, Okla. — Union Pacific has suffered “multiple washouts” in the Muskogee area following torrential rains early Thursday, the railroad said in a notification to customers. Full story: Trains...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: National Parks Traveler, May 6, 2022) Re-enactments of the “meeting of the rails” back in 1869 will be staged at Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah on Saturday and next Tuesday. On May 10, 1869, locomotives from the Central Pacific and...
May 4, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, Ports, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 2, 2022) The Port of Long Beach in California last week announced the completion of the Double Track Access project from Pier G to Pier J, which added a second rail line to boost capacity. Full story: Progressive...
May 4, 2022 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Click2Houston, May 3, 2022) HOUSTON — Fifth Ward residents are pleading for action on a “cancer cluster” identified in their area. The residents want Union Pacific to take responsibility for the health problems they say have plagued their community for years....
May 2, 2022 | Headlines, UP
(Source: JD Supra, April 29, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interpretation of the phrase “in use” as used in the Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA) continues to baffle courts across the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States. On April 28, 2022, the Supreme...
May 2, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, UP
(Source: Dallas Morning News, May 1, 2022) SANTA TERESA, N.M. — The Mexican government said it intends to shift long-range plans to build a trade railway connection worth billions of dollars from Texas to New Mexico in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stepped-up border...
