Surface Transportation Board

Major General Gavin Lawrence will be a featured speaker at the American Short Line and Railroad Association’s (ASLRRA) 2024 Annual Conference, scheduled to take place March 24-26 in Kansas City,…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has for the second time found that CN-subsidiary Wisconsin Central, Ltd.’s proposal “to unilaterally designate” the Belt Railway of Chicago’s (BRC) Clearing Yard as the…

Republican Patrick J. Fuchs, 35, has been nominated by President Biden to a second term on the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which has economic regulatory authority over railroad rates and…

Independent rail economist Jim Blaze shares another fearless forecast for North American rail freight, as originally reported in Railway Age's sister publication, International Railway Journal (IRJ).

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is amending its emergency service regulations to provide “immediate relief” for shippers in certain situations. On Jan. 24, it reported adopting a final rule clarifying…

A majority of members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Divisions 72 and 191 on Jan. 15 ratified an implementing agreement regarding CSX Transportation’s acquisition of the…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) will require additional information in the Amtrak Gulf Coast proceeding and schedules hearing. Also, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) pilots upgraded seating on light rail…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Jan. 18 presented its calculation for the change in railroad productivity for the 2018-2022 averaging period. Comments are due by Feb. 5.

Three days before Christmas, a coalition of tank car owners asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) what happened to their complaint. The coalition alleges that Union Pacific’s fee for moving…

The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) on Jan. 5 issued a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for the proposed construction and operation of a new rail…

Surface Transportation Board (STB) General Counsel Craig M. Keats retires after 51 years of public service. Also, the Port of Los Angeles, Calif., elevates Chris Brown to Chief Harbor Engineer,…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking candidates to fill 18 vacancies on its newly formed Passenger Railroad Advisory Committee (PRAC). Nominations are due by Feb. 5, 2024; candidates may…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted for first-quarter 2024 the rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF), defined as “an index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs incurred by the…

Gulf & Atlantic Railways, LLC (G&AR) has received Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval to acquire ownership and direct control over Class III Northern Indiana Railroad Company (NIRC).

The George Washington University (GW) Regulatory Studies Center on Dec. 18 announced that Roger Nober has joined as its new Director, effective January 2024.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle weaved mysteries as no other, with his protagonist detective, Sherlock Holmes, well-tuned to the significance (The Adventure of Silver Blaze) of a watchdog not barking when…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Nov. 2 denied Union Pacific’s (UP) motion to dismiss Sanimax USA LLC’s (Sanimax) service case against it and set a procedural schedule for the…

BNSF and Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC (NTEC) last month told the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that they had reached a settlement agreement to resolve their common carrier dispute. The…

The U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit is hearing a case brought by Union Pacific (UP) and the Association of American Railroads (AAR) that challenges the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB)…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Dec. 4 denied a petition to rehear challenges to its August 2023 decision that halted the Uinta Basin Railway…