November 29, 2022 | Headlines, Shippers, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 29, 2022) A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has asked the Surface Transportation Board to appoint representatives of the coal industry to the board’s Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee. Full story:...
November 28, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, November 23, 2022) Slightly more than one week before the final hearing scheduled before the Surface Transportation Board (STB) concerning proposed Amtrak service between New Orleans and Mobile, the parties apparently have settled their...
November 17, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, November 16, 2022) The chairman of the federal Surface Transportation Board got up Wednesday in front of a room full of railroad executives, analysts and customers and ripped the industry to shreds. Martin Oberman offered his verdict on why...
November 15, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 14, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board last week granted a request to extend mediation talks between Amtrak, CSX, Norfolk Southern Railway and other parties over Amtrak’s proposal to restore Gulf Coast passenger...
November 3, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 1, 2022) The parties involved in the fight over Amtrak Gulf Coast service want to make one more effort to settle the matter without resuming their hearing before the Surface Transportation Board. Full story: Trains...
October 31, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: www.al.com, October 29, 2022) A final decision could be coming in Amtrak’s quest to restart passenger rail service connecting Mobile to New Orleans. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a news release Friday, set a Dec. 7 date for a voting conference...
October 31, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 28, 2022) Citing ongoing service problems at the big four U.S. Class I railroads, federal regulators today ordered BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific to continue reporting expanded performance...
October 28, 2022 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Governing.com, October 28, 2022) The last passenger train between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., ran more than 15 years ago — before Hurricane Katrina sent a massive storm surge barreling into the Gulf Coast, damaging roads and infrastructure and transforming...
October 26, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 19, 2022) Class Is employed 117,582 workers in the United States as of mid-September, a 0.49% increase from August employment levels and a 2.95% increase year over year, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Five of...
October 26, 2022 | BNSF, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Union Pacific has taken issue with a video that Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern showed federal regulators of a KCS grain train “breezing through Houston.” UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that...
