Pat Ottensmeyer, Kansas City Southern CEO TRAINS: David Lassen KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has hired a veteran Canadian National executive as a consultant who will help lead its gradual shift to Precision Scheduled Railroading during the next two years. Sameh Famhy, who was senior vice president of engineering, mechanical and supply management […]
Trains editors discuss all the rail news that is fit to publish. This week, Digital Editor Steve Sweeney and Columnist Brian Solomon discuss BNSF Railway’s Matt Rose, Amtrak food, and topics for future columns and podcasts. Only from Trains! […]
Association of American Railroads Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads on Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Jan. 12. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 555,127 carloads and intermodal units, up 8.4 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the […]
James Foote, CSX Transportation CEO CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation set a record for the lowest U.S. Class I railroad operating ratio in 2018 and expects the key measure of efficiency to drop below 60 percent this year, a year ahead of schedule. “What an incredible year,” CEO Jim Foote said on the […]
Mark Wallace, CSX executive vice president of sales and marketing TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Proclaiming that his railroad has gone “from worst to first” in just 20 months, CSX Transportation’s Mark Wallace offered a strongly positive view of Precision Scheduled Railroading Thursday at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers conference. Wallace made his […]
Amtrak’s “Beef short rib” meal Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — Characterizing the change as an “evolution,” Amtrak says sleeping car passengers will have new meal options on the Chicago-New York/Boston Lake Shore Limited and Chicago-Washington, D. C., Capitol Limited starting this week. On June 1, 2018, Amtrak reduced dining car staffs on those trains from a […]
NEW YORK — New Yorkers are a hearty group; bad hurricanes, horrible weather, monster traffic delays, commuter transit nightmares and even local restaurant closings are usually dealt with mild invective and a shrug, but L-train reconstruction has riders using stronger invectives as involuntary changes re-shape their lives, possibly the next two years. There was an […]
No. 612’s boiler and running gear are reunited in Ohio at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in 2015. Age of Steam SUGARCREEK, Ohio — As the Age of Steam Roundhouse prepares for its first season of public tours beginning in May, the museum has also been working on a special project for a World War […]
BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose, left, speaks with independent rail analyst Anthony B. Hatch, right, at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers’ conference in Lombard, Ill., on Jan. 16, 2019. TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — What’s on Matt Rose’s mind? Lots. As part of a long-ranging conversation with independent rail analyst Anthony B. […]
BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose speaks to an audience at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers conference in Lombard, Ill., on Jan. 16, 2019. TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Matt Rose has a lot of things on his mind as he nears the end of his tenure as executive chairman of BNSF Railway. […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp. today announced fourth quarter 2018 net earnings of $843 million, or $1.01 per share, versus $4,140 million, or $4.62 per share on a GAAP basis ($0.64 on an adjusted basis) in the same period last year. Fourth quarter 2017 net earnings included a tax reform benefit resulting from the Tax […]
G&W CEO John C. Hellmann TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Precision Scheduled Railroading is not just for Class I railroads — either as a concept or in its impact. Railroading’s most inescapable topic also reaches short lines, as Genesee & Wyoming chairman, president, and CEO John Hellman outlined during his Wednesday luncheon address to […]
