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Business
Commentary: A customer checklist for reading railroads’ third-quarter reports
Genuflecting toward Wall Street has symbolically become part of the North American Class 1 rail company culture.
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News
Cargill urging regulators to seek last-mile metrics from railroads (with video)
Brad Hildebrand discussed Cargill’s reliance on dependable rail service during FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.
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American Shipper
Commentary: Intermodal missed signals? Fumbling so close to the growth goal line?
Intermodal was supposed to be the growth engine for rail.
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Infrastructure
House approves trucking insurance increase and hours-of-service delay
$1.5 trillion infrastructure bill passes U.S. House along party lines; includes truck insurance hike.
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News
Operational changes helped railcars move faster, says Union Pacific report
The railroad’s deployment of precision scheduled railroading resulted in faster and longer trains and reduced car sorting, according to the company’s recent sustainability report.
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News
Norfolk Southern sheds hundreds of locomotives
The company says its “disposal’ of 300 locomotives and its plans to sell 400 more are due to precision scheduled railroading.
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News
Railroads must adopt technological strategies to stay relevant
A report from Boston Consulting Group suggests that the Class I railroads must look beyond precision scheduled railroading and operating ratios if the industry wants…
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Rail
Commentary: There are too many freight cars
Are there too many railroad freight cars? Jim Blaze writes about many reasons why this is the case.
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Rail
Commentary: Has the outlook for intermodal railcar purchases stalled?
Jim Blaze writes about the outlook for intermodal rail in 2020.
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News
Gauging rail’s key themes in 2020
Improving rail volumes and service are among the crucial issues to look out for as the railroads reveal their 2020 guidance in the coming days.
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