Loop Capital Markets SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Rail service has been poor more often than it’s been good during the past five years because railroads run too lean and get caught short of crews, locomotives, or both and can’t recover quickly from the impact of unexpected events. So says Rick Paterson, a one-time Australian railroader […]
New Canadian National Chief Operating Officer Rob Reilly speaks at his alma mater, Washburn University, in 2017. Reilly was a starting guard on Washburn’s 1987 NAIA men’s basketball national championship team. Washburn University CN Chief Operating Officer Mike Cory will retire at the end of June after 38 years with the railway. Canadian National MONTREAL […]
Cimarron Valley C40-8 No. 4053 sits outside Metro East Industries’ paint booth in East St. Louis, Ill. The locomotive was built as CSX No. 7616 in 1990. Mark Mautner SATANTA, Kan. – Cimarron Valley Railroad has been awarded a grant by Kansas Department of Transportation to assist in replacing the train line’s 13 aging locomotives […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Surface Transportation Board Vice Chairman Patrick Fuchs says the independent agency is ready to tackle several issues that have been languishing for years, including how reasonable rates are determined and shipper requests for reciprocal switching. The board also is closely watching Class I railroad transitions to Precision Scheduled Railroading and wants […]
Atlas N scale GP39-2 diesel locomotive Sound or no sound has been one of the basic questions when buying new locomotives. If you bought an engine without sound, but later wanted to add a Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder, one of the hurdles was finding a place for the speaker, especially in N scale. […]
BNSF Railway CEO Carl Ice Bill Stephens SAN ANTONIO, Texas — BNSF Railway CEO Carl Ice refused to criticize Precision Scheduled Railroading at a shipper conference on Thursday, saying it inevitably leads to the misperception that his railroad doesn’t care about efficiency. “That’s not true. We do,” Ice says. “And our history shows we care […]
Union Pacific BOSTON — Union Pacific Chief Operating Officer Jim Vena wants to reset the discussion about hump yards and Precision Scheduled Railroading. Converting hump yards to flat-switching facilities was a key element of E. Hunter Harrison’s PSR strategy at Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and CSX Transportation. And at CSX, where Harrison idled eight of […]
CP CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific BOSTON — Shippers will eventually rally behind Precision Scheduled Railroading, Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel says, which could one day lead to a merger of two like-minded Class I systems. “Right now there’s pushback with PSR because customers don’t understand it. Change is always scary. Some railroads have done […]
Montreal Locomotive Works C630 No. 630 pauses at the head of a Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad train to re-fuel. The locomotive will likely be mothballed in the near future in favor of newer power. Stephan Koenig ERIE, Pa. — Famed Alco railroad Western New York & Pennsylvania will soon replace its venerable six-axle […]
A Norfolk Southern train works at Brush Yard in Decatur, Ill., in November 2016. Shippers are saying operational changes brought by Precision Scheduled Railroading are leading to extensive charges for not loading or unloading cars quickly enough, even when railroad service is an issue. Steve Smedley WASHINGTON – Shippers are not exactly jumping for joy […]
A westbound BNSF Railway intermodal train passes through La Grange, Ill., on April 20, 2019. Warren Buffett, chairman of BNSF parent Berkshire Hathaway, says the company is closely watching Union Pacific as it adopts Precision Scheduled Railroading. TRAINS: David Lassen OMAHA, Neb. – Berkshire Hathaway is monitoring Union Pacific as it adopts Precision Scheduled Railroading and […]
A light power move of Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern locomotives departs Bensenville Yard and passes through the Franklin Park, Ill., Metra station as a transfer cut with CSX locomotives arrives off the Indiana Harbor Belt. CP and Canadian National are in a dispute over their interchange location in the Chicago area. TRAINS: David Lassen […]
