WASHINGTON – BNSF Railway has urged federal regulators to reject Navajo Transitional Energy Co.’s requests for an emergency service order, arguing that the Powder River Basin mining company’s desire to take advantage of the hot export coal market does not constitute an emergency. “NTEC’s claim is not about failure of service, but instead about getting […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific’s reportable train derailment rate improved 10% during the first quarter, executives said today while defending the safety record of long trains. “We continue to make great strides on safety,” Eric Gehringer, executive vice president of operations, told investors and analysts on the railroad’s earnings call on Thursday. UP’s goal remains […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific’s net profit was flat in a first quarter marked by severe weather and a slowing economy that combined to drive traffic volumes lower. “The story of the past quarter for Union Pacific is one of resiliency,” CEO Lance Fritz told investors and analysts on the railroad’s earnings call on Thursday […]
BLUE ISLAND, Ill. — Thirteen cars of a CSX Transportation train derailed Wednesday night in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island, with the railcars damaging several parked vehicles when they overturned on a sharp curve, WLS-TV reports. No injuries were reported. No hazardous materials were involved, and no cargo was spilled or leaked. CSX said […]
An A-B-A set of F3 diesels is on the point of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train 47, a morning run between Hoboken, N.J., and Binghamton, N.Y., at East Stroudsburg, Pa., in May 1954. Jack Emerick photo […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. railroad traffic fell 4.4% for the week ending April 15, the Association of American Railroads reported today. Total carloads for the week ending April 15 were 234,066 carloads, up 5.8% compared with the same week in 2022, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 234,131 containers and trailers, down 12.8% compared to 2022. […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The Union Pacific Railroad has raised the causeway berm breach that carries its track across the Great Salt Lake at the request of the State of Utah. More than 10 million birds representing 338 bird species migrate to Salt Lake City annually from South America, Russia, and Mexico, attracted by the […]
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board today removed National Steel Car from its investigation into the March 4 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in Ohio and was critical of the carmaker’s claims that its wheelsets had been ruled out as a potential cause of the wreck. “In a statement Friday, National Steel Car […]
MONTREAL – Canadian National has launched a new sustainability tool, My Carbon Emissions, that allows customers to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of all of their loaded shipments moving on the railway. CN’s initial Carbon Calculator, the first in the industry when it debuted 13 years ago, gave customers visibility into their estimated greenhouse gas […]
WASHINGTON – BNSF Railway and Montana Rail Link have reached a trackage rights agreement that will permit BNSF to operate three of the regional railroad’s branch lines. BNSF in March won Surface Transportation Board approval to resume operation of lines it leased to MRL in 1987. The branch lines that MRL acquired from Burlington Northern, […]
WASHINGTON – Navajo Transitional Energy Co. says BNSF Railway has violated its common carrier obligations by failing to provide adequate service for its Powder River Basin export coal trains. NTEC, in a complaint filed with the Surface Transportation Board on Friday, says BNSF has failed to provide adequate service from the Spring Creek Mine in […]
BNSF Railway and Norfolk Southern have reached paid sick time agreements with two more of the unions representing their employees. BNSF and the International Brotherhood of Railway Carmen reached their agreement as part of larger ongoing discussions about modernizing the work environment, the railway said on Monday. Building upon existing BNSF paid time off and […]
