August 9, 2023 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, August 9, 2023) Landowners at the site of a 2018 derailment near Doon, Iowa, are suing BNSF Railway, seeking damages for cleanup costs and reduced property values from oil spilled in the incident. Full story: Trains.com
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...
August 2, 2023 | BNSF, GCA Elections, News
Kent J. Psota was reelected to his second term as General Chairman of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe/Montana Rail Link General Committee of Adjustment (BNSF/MRL GCA) at the GCA’s First Quadrennial Meeting in Las Vegas on July 19, 2023. The BNSF/MRL GCA is the...
August 2, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: Associated Press, August 1, 2023) Roughly 7,500 BNSF train engineers may soon get up to eight days of paid sick time and more certainty about their days off if they approve a new deal with the railroad announced Tuesday. Full story: Associated...
August 2, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Empoyes Division press release, August 1, 2023) The BMWED has sued BNSF Railway in federal court to combat the carrier’s bad faith in dealing with the Union by its depletion of its Maintenance of Way workforce and its blatant...
August 1, 2023 | BNSF, News, Paid Sick Leave
On August 1, the BLET announced it had reached a tentative system-wide agreement with the BNSF Railway that will significantly benefit locomotive engineers. The tentative agreement includes up to eight paid sick leave days and grants access to scheduled time off in an...
August 1, 2023 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Freight Waves, July 31, 2023) “Poor track conditions” of a track owned by BNSF may have contributed to a fatal September 2021 accident involving an Amtrak train derailment in Joplin, Montana, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Full story:...
August 1, 2023 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Television station WDAF, July 31, 2023) Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Department of Transportation are set to announce a new Missouri Railroad Safety Crossing plan this week. On Thursday, the governor plans to sign House Bill 4, which includes $50 million...
July 31, 2023 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, July 28, 2023) Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in...
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:...
