Rail shippers see Transport Canada’s amendments to collect more freight rail data as a good start, but they maintain that more can be done.
Eight U.S. representatives from Iowa and Minnesota want the Surface Transportation Board to require Union Pacific to fix service issues and lift weather-related embargoes in the region.
Massachusetts-based RailState, founded by two rail industry veterans, seeks to provide customers with insights on where trains are located and a line segment’s performance over time.
Four Class I railroads have asked the Surface Transportation Board and U.S. appeals courts to review an order that seeks to resolve small rate disputes through voluntary arbitration.
The Surface Transportation Board wants Union Pacific to address service hiccups at California’s Foster Farms. Also, CN reports rail traffic controllers have ratified a new collective agreement.
An active Surface Transportation Board and ongoing issues to fully restore rail network capacity are among the issues that industry stakeholders are eyeing in the new year.
Rail service, an active Surface Transportation Board and continued M&A activity were among 2022’s news highlights.
The STB has rendered decisions on two rules aimed at helping the railroads and shippers resolve small rate disputes.
US Freight Railroads are the Best Rail Network Since the Staggers Act of 1980
The unions and the freight railroads must repair their relationship and collaborate on improving service if the industry wants to thrive and take more market share, observers told FreightWaves.
