July 20, 2022 | BNSF, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 14, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Projected traffic increases from the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger will put the critical Houston terminal into gridlock, BNSF Railway has warned federal regulators this week, citing a new...
July 6, 2022 | FRA, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 5, 2022) NEW YORK — Whether the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will suffer from a June 30 Supreme Court (SCOTUS) trimming of regulatory agency authority to interpret their own governing statutes...
July 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 5, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Surface Transportation Board has directed Union Pacific to continue providing priority service and reports on that service for a California feed and poultry company under an emergency order issued in June....
July 5, 2022 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 1, 2022) Surface Transportation Board members and other federal officials continue to hear from rail shippers and other rail industry stakeholders about ongoing freight-rail service issues and the supply-chain crisis. This week,...
July 5, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age analysis by Jim Blaze, July 1, 2022) NEW YORK — The four largest U.S. freight railroad companies—BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific—all reported, per the request of the Surface Transportation Board, supplemental information about their...
July 5, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, July 5, 2022) The second half of 2022 is underway, and freight rail stakeholders will be watching over the next several weeks and months how the railroads untangle service issues that seemed to be persisting through June, according to data...
July 5, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Railway Age, July 5, 2022) NEW YORK — The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on July 1 accepted for consideration responsive applications by CN and Norfolk Southern (NS) regarding the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger, which is under STB review and...
July 5, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Daily Herald, July 2, 2022) CHICAGO — Federal lawmakers have stayed on the sidelines regarding the regional impact of a white-hot proposal to combine two major freight railroads, but that’s changing. Full story: Daily Herald
July 1, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, PSR, STB, TTD
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 30, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The leader of a federation of rail and other unions has written a group of U.S. senators asking that Congress give the Surface Transportation Board more power to enforce railroads’ common-carrier obligations...
June 30, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Television station KFYR, June 29, 2022) BISMARCK, N.D. — Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., has been addressing a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railway backlog in North Dakota. BNSF’s backlog in the Peace Garden State is at 2,752 cars, which is down 3,600 cars from...
