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News
Weekly carloads provide more of the same…pain
Rail volumes were off again for the week ending June 29, 2019 with U.S. railroads reporting a 5.5 percent decline.
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News
Rail union seeks U.S. crews on Mexican cross-border trains
Rail union workers are at odds with other members of the freight rail industry over how cross-border rail operations are…
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Australia
Rio Tinto’s autonomous trains can’t work in North America…yet
Autonomous trains might be fully running in remote Australia, but it will take awhile before those kinds of trains will…
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Freight railroads consider hiring outside the industry
The transition to e-commerce and anticipated advances in automated trucking are forcing the freight railroads to adapt to supply chains…
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Railroad
Commentary: future of U.S. railroads’ chemical transport looks strong
Railroad market expert Jim Blaze writes about the movement of chemicals by rail and how that sub-set of railroad traffic…
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Railroads discuss hedging against market uncertainty
“It’s just a confusing time for all of us in transportation and anybody in manufacturing or business in general to…
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U.S. railroads caught in the middle of new tariff threat
e railroad industry is “concerned” about a possible disruption of the North American supply chain should the U.S. impose tariffs…
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Markets
Spindly transport stocks dealt another blow in new tariff threats
While the degradation was seen across most sectors, the transports are seeing outsized declines.
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Positive train control interoperability still far from a reality
Only 17 percent of the relationships between the U.S. passenger and freight railroads required to utilize positive train control technology…
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Rail regulatory authority questions its role on extra fees
“The board has the authority to define reasonable practices. If you were in our shoes, what would you do?” said…
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