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Kloster Advances; STB Questions Lurk

Surface Transportation Board (STB) nominee and Republican Richard Kloster received a favorable vote from the Senate Commerce Committee March 12 to fill one of two vacant seats on the five-member Board. The positive vote was along party lines, 15-13. Kloster’s name now will be forwarded to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) for advancement to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote.

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TD Cowen: Takeaways From the Next-Gen Freight Rail Conference

RAILWAY AGE NEXT-GEN FREIGHT RAIL CONFERENCE, MARCH 10, 2026: Union Pacific sees end-to-end scale and past merger lessons supporting its consolidation case with Norfolk Southern, but peers flag competition loss and gateway

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The 1,550-Pound Gorilla – Part 4 of 5

This is the fourth in a five-part series about railroad growth coming from truck conversions focused on the criticality of rail-to-rail competition to achieve Union Pacific’s growth outcome stated in the Dec.

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The Final Act of Independence

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Railroad history tends to be reductive, or at the very least presented without a great deal of context. Why that is, and what to do

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We Need Strong Public Policies. It’s Up to You!

ASLRRA PERSPECTIVE, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: Short line railroading is a growth-focused industry, and ASLRRA’s primary goal is to provide opportunities to promote that growth through engagement, education, training and connections.

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STB’s Preordained ‘Energizer Bunny’

WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: For Surface Transportation Board (STB) Vice Chairperson Republican Michelle A. Schultz, preparation and persistence paved what likely was an already preordained career path.  Serving a

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Don’t Have a Conniption. It’s Just  Corporate-Speak

FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE MARCH 2026 ISSUE: I’ve been wanting to write this column  for a very  long time. Recently I came across a Wall Street Journal article by News Editor

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Who Should Operate Corridors?

Amtrak is now repairing the East River Tunnels between New York Penn Station and Queens, as we have been reporting. That project has brought service reductions, including on the Empire Service trains

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FRA’s ‘Kind of a Little Bit’ Amtrak Restructuring

One of the basic principles of legal or historical research is to locate source documents: those which contain the words from the original proponents of an idea or a program, and which

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Ocean of Capital Chasing Trains

This Financial Edge column from the March 2026 issue is a topic recommended by Eric Marchetto, Chief Financial Officer of Trinity Industries Inc., and is a companion to a Railway Age Rail

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