PALESTINE, Texas — Union Pacific has filed suit to overturn a contract dating to 1872 that guarantees a certain number of jobs in Palestine, an east Texas community of 18,136 located 110 miles southwest of Dallas. The Palestine Herald-Press reports the suit, filed on Nov. 27, contends the contract should have been invalidated by a […]
BOSTON — A Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority commuter train uncoupled during Monday’s morning rush at Boston’s largest transit hub, causing numerous delays to Boston-area trains. MBTA Commuter Rail tweeted just after 7:20 a.m. that Franklin Line train 743 was stopped at South Station in the Michael S. Dukakis Transporation Center with a “mechanical issue” and […]
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WASHINGTON — Amtrak is once again attempting to attract online bargain hunters by offering advance-purchase fares up to 35% off as part of its “Track Friday” sale, which runs through Monday, Dec. 2. The saving over the lowest available “saver” prices are good for travel from Dec. 9, 2019, to April 30, 2020, although discounts […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National has announced it is implementing a “recovery plan” to respond to the traffic backlog created by an eight-day strike, Canada’s longest rail work stoppage in a decade — an effort that could include bringing back some recently laid-off workers. The railroad and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, representing conductors, train persons, and […]
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. – Canadian National subsidiary Wisconsin Central has begun construction on a new AutoPort automobile processing and transshipment facility just west of New Richmond along its former Soo Line/WC Minneapolis Subdivision. The facility will serve as an unloading site for vehicles, which will then be trucked to dealers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. […]
NOTE: The strike has reached a tentative conclusion on Tuesday afternoon. MONTREAL – The Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference is taking its grievances with Canadian National public as its strike against the Class I railroad enters its second week. On Monday, the union released a 7-minute audio recording of a dispatcher apparently forcing a train crew […]
Passengers aboard the eastbound Canadian take a break at Sioux Lookout, Ont., on Oct. 15, 2018. Bob Johnston WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Before the Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference representing CN engineers announced a tentative settlement with the railroad on Tuesday, the westbound Canadian that left Toronto on Nov. 24, spent 14 hours and 15 minutes waiting […]
MONTREAL – More than 3,000 workers will be going back to work after Canadian National and the Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference reached a tentative deal on Tuesday to end a week-old strike that shut down most of the Class Is operations in Canada. While the details of the deal were not available, conductors, train persons […]
CP SD70ACU No. 7003 departs Muskego Yard in Milwaukee after making a set out on Nov. 25. Chris Guss MILWAUKEE – Canadian Pacific’s SD70ACU fleet have been primarily assigned to Canadian service since the first locomotive was released for revenue service in August. That changed this week when two locomotives worked south of the border […]
A website screen capture shows an artist’s rendering of an electric truck developed by automaker Tesla. Tesla website NEW YORK CITY — The most immediate threat to railroads is not autonomous trucking but electric powered trucks, which will arrive much sooner and will be significantly cheaper to operate than diesel rigs. That’s the conclusion of […]
E. Hunter Harrison Canadian Pacific NEW YORK CITY — CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific executives insisted last week that Precision Scheduled Railroading is a formula for growth, not a way for the industry to cut its way to prosperity. The three railroads have stored thousands of locomotives and freight cars, idled yards, and […]
