BURLINGTON, Vt. — The spread of Precision Scheduled Railroading inflicts short-term pain on shortline railroads but offers the potential for long-term gain, Michael Miller, president of Genesee & Wyoming’s North American operations, told a shipper conference last week. The short-term impact includes unexpected service changes, the bunching of customer traffic, and the handling of larger […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — Eight major freight railroads filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week arguing that one of the nation’s largest labor unions is refusing to negotiate on the continuous issue of train crew size. On Oct. 3, attorneys representing eight freight carriers — BNSF Railway, Kansas City Southern, CSX Transportation, Grand […]
In a down year for North American rail volumes, Union Pacific led the third quarter decline in traffic among the six big systems, with its intermodal volume slumping 12% and its overall carloads off by 9%. Among the big four U.S. systems, BNSF Railway fared the best in the third quarter. Its intermodal volume was […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A common theme woven through several presentations at a regional rail shippers’ conference this week involved a key question: Are railroads still relevant? The world increasingly expects transportation that’s fast, reliable, and easy. Railroads are slow, unreliable, and complicated. As a result, they’ve lost market share to trucks and often aren’t even […]
CSX 4317, a former Reading Co. GP39-2 shown at right, works at Yeoman Yard in Tampa, Fla., in March 2017. It now resides at the Reading museum in Hamburg, Pa. Scott A. Hartley HAMBURG, Pa. – A former Reading GP-39-2, one of the last new locomotives delivered to that railroad just months before the Conrail […]
A CSX Transportation intermodal train hits the diamond at Blue Island, Ill., on Sept. 16, 2019. CSX, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific face a series of lawsuits from shippers over fuel surcharges the railroads instituted beginning in 2003. TRAINS: David Lassen Shippers across the country filed suit against the four largest U.S. railroads on […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. — South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia are suing the four largest U.S. Class I railroads, saying the railroads are violating U.S. antitrust law with coordinated fuel surcharges that drive up shipping costs. Reuters reports that the companies filed the suits Tuesday in federal court in Santa Ana, near their U.S. headquarters […]
Wm. K. Walthers Inc. HO scale Alco PA and PB diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives Alco PA and PB diesel locomotives. New York Central; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Delaware & Hudson (PA only, four road numbers [two each in direct current and Digital Command Control]); New York, New Haven & Hartford (PA only, four […]
THE coal train that Kentucky coal miners prevented from leaving the mine until they were paid back wages. The strike ended in the last week of September, but the train remains. The train, and miners’ pay, are now the subject of negotiations in bankruptcy proceedings for the Blackjewel corporation. Chris Anderson CUMBERLAND, Ky. — A […]
Rob Knight, outgoing UP chief financial officer Union Pacific Jennifer Hamann, incoming UP chief financial officer Union Pacific OMAHA, Neb. — The dean of railroad chief financial officers, Union Pacific’s Rob Knight, will retire at the end of the year. UP yesterday named Jennifer Hamann, who currently serves as senior vice president — finance, as […]
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. — The City of Mt. Sterling, Ky., is seeking sealed bids for the purchase of a former Chesapeake & Ohio freight and passenger station listed on the U.S. National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. According to a Facebook post, the city is seeking to sell the former depot building, located […]
Claude Mongeau, former CN CEO Norfolk Southern NORFOLK, Va. — It should come as no surprise that Norfolk Southern has added former Canadian National CEO Claude Mongeau to its board of directors as it shifts to a Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model. NS CEO Jim Squires has said his railroad is taking a balanced approach […]
