Posts by Frank N. Wilner
Frank N. Wilner, Contributing Editor
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Redux: Beware the Operating Ratio Trap
Editor’s Note: Allegations that railroads place too great an emphasis on lowering the operating ratio dominated the Surface Transportation Board’s two-day hearing April 26-27, “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service.”…
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Court to UP: Cease ‘Antiunion Animus’
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” They also are very different from the labor union brothers…
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STB’s ‘Marty Party’ Targets Rail CEOs
Call it a “Marty Party” scheduled for April 26-27 at which CEOs of the four largest U.S.-headquartered railroads will be placed as frogs on a lily pad in a lake…
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Court orders BMWED remain in national handling
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division of the Teamsters Rail Conference (BMWED) was rebuffed by a federal district court March 30 in an attempt to sever itself from…
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A Primer on Reciprocal Switching
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) will hold a public hearing March 15-16 to consider finalizing a long-pending, shipper instigated rulemaking that could loosen the standard for imposing a competition enhancing…
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Does the AAR Fear Competition?
How remarkable that the customarily staid Association of American Railroads (AAR) is following a Marx Brothers comedy script to derail a Surface Transportation Board (STB) proposed rulemaking intended to assure…