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Commentary: The good and bad of precision scheduled railroading
Ben Thrower writes about the positive and negative aspects of precision scheduled railroading in this commentary article.
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Commentary: Short line railroads – custom high-growth freight service
Market View commentator Jim Blaze writes about the advantages short line railroads offer to shippers.
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Commentary: What’s the 2020 outlook for railroad capital expenditures?
Jim Blaze writes about the decisions that will go into determining 2020 capital expenditures by the freight railroads.
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News
Norfolk Southern taps Mongeau for board seat
Norfolk Southern announced that Claude Mongeau has been elected as a director. The former Canadian National Railway head may be viewed as an effort to…
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Commentary: What’s a rail freight KPI, and why care?
Market Voice Jim Blaze contents that railroads are using the wrong KPIs to increase volume and capture market share from trucks.
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Railcar backlogs turning upward as sand, grain shipments slow
Grain may return with trade growth, but frac sand in structural change.
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Commentary: What’s in a railroad map?
As railroads cut less profitable routes, shippers should learn as much as possible about railroads plans for future service.
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Commentary: After investor reports – what does rail freight look like for the remainder of 2019?
The Class I railroads have reported their second quarter/first-half of 2019 results. Jim Blaze writes about what may happen during the remainder of 2019.
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Legal issues
Rail shippers want more say in carrier operations
Grain shippers say Congress should take a "fresh look" at railroad policy.
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Company earnings
Union Pacific confident in its march towards a lower operating ratio
“You've heard me say this many, many times – we're not going to use the lack of volume as an excuse not to make aggressive…
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