Management Archives

June 10, 2014
Class I

SEPTA braces for regional rail strike

SEPTA management appears willing to endure a strike to its regional rail system, possibly beginning this Saturday, June 14, 2014, rather than delay such action until winter, when weather is more severe and system ridership is higher.

June 05, 2014
Class I

Wyoming plots a course for LNG

The Wyoming LNG Roadmap is a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility, potential, costs, and benefits of using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a supplement to diesel fuel in Wyoming’s high horsepower sectors—mining, rail, drilling, pressure pumping, and over-the-road trucking.

June 04, 2014
Finance/Leasing

Greenbrier, Watco set railcar repair joint venture

The Greenbrier Cos., Inc. and Watco Companies, LLC announced early Wednesday, June 4, 2014, a new company that will create a North American network of railcar repair shops.

June 03, 2014
Class I

How could EPA’s proposed coal regs affect railroads?

The Obama Administration on Monday, June 2, 2014, announced a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation, dubbed “Clean Power Plan,” to cut carbon pollution from U.S. power plants 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.

May 28, 2014
Class I

NS President Squires assumes expanded role

Norfolk Southern Corp. Chairman and CEO Wick Moorman on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, announced that President James A. Squires will assume additional responsibilities in line with the company’s normal succession planning process.

May 23, 2014
News

RDC’s Posner: “Europe needs cooperation as much as it needs competition”

In a forum at the May 21, 2014 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, Railroad Development Corp. Chairman Henry Posner III said that European railways “need to be opened up for both competition and cooperation to widen their market and become successful.”

Commentary

May 23, 2014
Commuter/Regional

Union boss may have LIRR in checkmate

This is about the Long Island Rail Road. It’s about a dispute over wages and benefits. It’s about politics that have a stereotypically anti-labor House Republican majority poised to line up on rail labor’s side to embarrass a Democratic governor. And it’s about a union boss named Anthony Simon, who should be teaching strategy to future battle commanders at the Army War College.

May 22, 2014
Finance/Leasing

TransCanada looks to rail as pipeline alternative

TransCanada Corp., whose Keystone XL pipeline project has been stalled by politically related delays, is in discussions with customers about shipping Canadian crude to the U.S. by rail as an alternative, according to a May 22, 2014 Reuters report.

May 21, 2014
Class I

LIRR strike probability increases

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is signaling its willingness to endure a strike by Long Island Rail Road employees, following a non-binding Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) decision seemingly favoring union stances.

May 16, 2014
Commuter/Regional

Two unions ponder SEPTA strike

Engineers employed by SEPTA’s regional rail operations plan to vote on authorizing a strike against the five-county authority, the national office of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said Friday, May 16, 2014.