Fuchs Updates Outstanding STB Proceedings
Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Patrick Fuchs on Sept. 22 provided an update on recent actions to “facilitate and expedite the resolution of several outstanding Board proceedings.”
Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Patrick Fuchs on Sept. 22 provided an update on recent actions to “facilitate and expedite the resolution of several outstanding Board proceedings.”
Union Pacific and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers–Transportation Division on Sept. 22 announced an agreement they said “guarantees that SMART-TD members working in train and yardmaster
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted for fourth-quarter 2025 the rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF), which is defined as “an index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs incurred by the nation’s largest railroads over a specified period of time.”
POTUS 47 has nominated Republican Richard Kloster to fill a vacant seat at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) and renominated Republican Michelle A. Schultz to a second term. The Sept. 11 nominations
Just days after the Surface Transportation Board (STB) granted Metra’s application for terminal trackage rights to continue commuter rail service over three Union Pacific-owned lines in Chicagoland, UP has filed a lawsuit
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 2 granted Metra’s application for terminal trackage rights to continue commuter rail service over three lines in the Chicago metropolitan area owned by host freight railroad Union Pacific, and it denied UP’s motion to dismiss that application.
Disruption at the Surface Transportation Board: One of the attributes of the freight transportation sector we’ve always liked has been its low politicization. People in and around the industry care about stuff
Union Pacific Corporation (UPC) and Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) and Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) have notified the Surface Transportation Board (STB) of their intent to file an application seeking authority for the acquisition of control by UPC, through its wholly owned subsidiary Ruby Merger Sub 1 Corporation, of NSC, and for the resulting common control by UPC of UP and NS.
The firing by POTUS 47 of outspoken Surface Transportation Board (STB) member and Democrat Robert E. Primus Aug. 27 leaves the five-member agency short two members as it awaits a formal merger
POTUS 47 on Aug. 27 fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert Primus, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 28, noting that the STB is “the railroad regulator weighing the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.” “Primus,