The Association of American Railroads (AAR) supports BNSF’s appeal of the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) recent preliminary injunction requiring the Class I to this year transport millions of tons of coal from Navajo
U.S. rail traffic in Week 34 (ending Aug. 26, 2023) lagged the same week last year—falling 5.2%, according to the Association of American Railroads’ Aug. 30 report. Both carloads and intermodal volume were down.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) in an Aug. 24 letter provided a progress report to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose on the Class I railroads’ pending
For the first 33 weeks of 2023 (ending Aug. 19), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.9% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Aug. 23 report. Both Canada and the U.S. saw declines, while Mexico saw an increase.
The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has written letters to all six Class I railroads (download below) urging them to join the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) voluntary Confidential Close Call Reporting
U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Aug. 12, 2023 (Week 32) dipped 4.2% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Aug. 16.
BNSF has donated an alternative fuel testbed locomotive, most recently operated by the railroad as a hydrogen fuel cell switcher in Southern California, to the Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM). Built as Canadian
For the first 31 weeks of 2023 (ending Aug. 5), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.1% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Aug. 9 report. Both Canada and the U.S. saw declines, while Mexico saw an increase.
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has determined that the cost of capital for the railroad industry was 10.58% for 2022.
The three highest-volume intermodal weeks of 2023 were the three July weeks not including Independence Day, AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported Aug. 2. Also, while carloads of chemicals rose in July for the first time in nearly a year, the month was “exceptionally weak” for grain carloadings, he noted during the release of the association’s traffic report for July 2023 and the week ending July 29, 2023.
