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Railroad
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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Railroad
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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Railroad
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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Railroad
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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Railroad
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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Railroad
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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Modes
Union leaders criticize precision scheduled railroading
The implementation of precision scheduled railroading has contributed to dwindling morale and could result in creating unsafe working conditions should the federal government withhold intervention,…
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