The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen wants freight and passenger railroads to temporarily alter their sick leave policies and provide stronger sanitizing materials.
Uncertainty is still an underlying theme facing North American freight railroads.
Union Pacific opens lanes, while Norfolk Southern talks lane opportunities to take market share from trucks.
The railroad eyes slight volume growth in 2020 amid plans for longer trains and reduced headcount.
Net income falls in the fourth quarter amid a decline in operating revenue and a decrease in rail volumes.
Jim Blaze profiles TTX, a company that is essential to the railroad industry.
Market Expert Michael Baudendistel writes about rail intermodal volume is lower for the long-term, or can it be more competitive with trucking.
The next step is achieving full interoperability with other railroads.
The railroad will consolidate business segments to three groups from four to better adapt to market conditions.
Rail executives discussed short-term strategies for growing rail volumes amid expectations that volumes won’t pick up until well into 2020.
Jim Blaze writes about the Alameda Corridor in Los Angeles, that takes some of the freight from the harbor to distribution centers. Is it still economically viable?
The Class I railroads furlough workers in times of lower volumes but unions think the cuts have been too deep as a result of precision scheduled railroading.
Rationalizing additional network assets is still a possibility in 2020.
Excerpt: The companies promote and assign new roles to longstanding employees.
Companies file a flurry of lawsuits against the big four U.S. Class I railroads, alleging their fuel surcharge programs violated antitrust laws.
Jennifer Hamann will succeed Rob Knight on January 1, 2020.
U.S. rail volumes are down nearly 4% year-to-date amid a 6.6% decline for coal and a 4% drop for intermodal.
The railroad was building the train when it derailed and caused a tank car to catch fire.
Three Class I U.S. rail operations earned enough returns on investment in 2018 to support their capital projects.
Slumping coal demand, trade wars and a competitive truck market are weighing on rail volumes for the remainder of the year.
