NS: ‘We Want YOU as a Conductor’
In the midst of adversarial national bargaining for which a PEB (Presidential Emergency Board) has been formed in the hopes of averting a nationwide rail worker strike, as well as a time
Author: William C. Vantuono
Canada: Grassroots Advocacy for Ag By Rail
Two Canadian agricultural groups, Pulse Canada and the Western Grain Elevator Association, have launched a campaign called “Canada’s Ready,” described as a grassroots public awareness campaign to “show Canadians and the world that our farmers, processors and exporters are ready to step up and deliver,” and “to ensure there are no weak links in Canada’s agriculture supply chain,” the most important segment of which is railroads.
Passenger Trains on Freight Railroads: ‘It’s Not Rocket Science. It’s About Cutting the Right Business Deal’ – RAIL GROUP ON AIR
Industry icons Gene Skoropowski and Tom Mulligan recall their long, mutually beneficial association as, respectively, Managing Director of California’s Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority and Union Pacific Director of Passenger Rail Operations. Gene
CP, KCS to STB: CPKC ‘Compellingly in the Public Interest, Should Be Approved Without Conditions’
The document exceeds 4,300 pages: Canadian Pacific’s and Kansas City Southern’s Surface Transportation Board filing on their merger: “Applicants’ Response to Comments and Requests for Conditions, Opposition to Responsive Applications, and Rebuttal in Support of the Application.”
Cathcart Rail Completes The Andersons Transaction; Adds Nuveen
Cathcart Rail has completed its acquisition of the railcar repair business of The Andersons, Inc., and welcomes Nuveen, a leading global investment manager with more than $1.2 trillion of assets under management, as an equity stakeholder alongside Star America Infrastructure Partners, LLC.
SMART-TD’s Ferguson to Members: ‘We Want and Deserve a Fair Agreement’
The heated rhetoric surrounding the impasse that national rail labor contract negotiations appears to have reached—and the threat of a strike leading to an economy-crippling rail network shutdown—shows little signs of cooling down.
UNDER SCRUTINY
MIDYEAR REPORT, RAILWAY AGE JULY 2022 ISSUE: Compared with the intense examination to
which Class I freight railroads have been
subjected by the Surface Transportation
Board and other industry stakeholders,
dealing with the global COVID-19
pandemic was a relatively calm stroll in the
park on a warm spring day. (With Contributing Editors Frank N. Wilner and Jason Seidl)
Commentary
‘Lines On Labor’
FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE JULY 2022 ISSUE: If the headline above sounds familiar, you’ve been reading Railway Age for a very long time. “Lines on Labor” was the late Senior Editor Gus Welty’s column; we retired it in 1997 when Gus died.
TEMI: Mexico’s New Interurban
For many years, Mexico’s only rail transit systems have been Mexico City’s rapid transit network, Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC); the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey (STCM) hybrid LRT/rapid transit in Monterrey; and the Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano (SITEUR) LRT in Guadalajara. Planning is under way, and investors are sought, for a fourth: TEMI (Tren Estatal Metropolitano e Intermunicipal), an interurban system for the State of Guanajuato.
NWT Unity Rail Port Under Way
North West Terminal Ltd. (NWT), an independent farmer/shareholder-owned company headquartered near Unity, Saskatchewan in the Northwest region of the province that owns and operates an inland grain terminal and fermentation facility, is developing Unity Rail Port, a processing and transportation hub.