July 29, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 29, 2022) As of mid-June, U.S. Class Is employed 116,251 people, a 0.41% increase compared with employment levels in mid-May and a 0.28% increase from June 2021’s level, according to Surface Transportation Board data. Four...
July 29, 2022 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 28, 2022) Canadian National calls an Amtrak proposal that would give it dispatching control over CN lines with poor passenger performance “an outrageously self-serving recipe” that would “cause profound harm to freight railroads, freight...
July 27, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 26, 2022) U.S. lawmakers from Illinois and suburban government officials yesterday announced their opposition to the current terms of the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. Full story: Progressive...
July 26, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 25, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board will hold a three-day public hearing in September on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. The hearing will be held Sept. 28, 29 and 30 at the board’s...
July 22, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 20, 2022) Some of the more detailed metrics the Surface Transportation Board has begun collecting as it tracks the rail industry’s service issues could become part of the STB’s regular regulatory oversight, board member Patrick Fuchs...
July 22, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 20, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board on Wednesday denied a California poultry and feed producer’s request for an extension of an emergency service order covering Union Pacific grain trains. Full story: Trains...
July 21, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 19, 2022) Pressure to reduce terminal dwell figures has prompted some Union Pacific yards to routinely depart trains that include misrouted cars simply to get them moving, a UP engineer alleges in a letter sent to federal regulators....
July 21, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, July 19, 2022) The Surface Transportation Board has been receiving testimony on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern — and it’s been an earful. Full story: Freight Waves
July 20, 2022 | CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 15, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern — responding to critics, skeptics, and opponents — told federal regulators this week that their proposed merger is in the public interest and should be approved. Full...
July 20, 2022 | Amtrak, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 14, 2022) NEW YORK — Amtrak is calling on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to deny CN’s conditions to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger because they do “not satisfy the Board’s ‘operationally feasible’ requirement” and...
