Norfolk Southern (NS) has reached agreements with two additional labor unions for paid sick leave: the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, Transportation Workers, Mechanical Department (SMART-MD) and the International Brotherhood
Union Pacific (UP) on March 7 published the second edition of its “We Are One” report, announcing the receipt of “third-party validation of pay equity for women and people of color, and that its board of directors is now majority-diverse.”
A District Court of Harris County, Tex., jury has awarded $500 million in punitive damages and $57 million in compensatory damages to a woman, who according to court documents was intoxicated with
Adam Nori and Nick Borders have joined RailState’s sales and business development team. Also, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) appoints Lona Edwards Hankins as permanent CEO; and Union Pacific (UP) Executive Vice President and CFO Jennifer Hamann is named a recipient of The Manufacturing Institute’s 2023 Women MAKE Awards.
NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, has named Broe Real Estate Group’s (BREG) rail-served flatbed distribution center project for The Home Depot the 2022 Industrial Development of the Year. The 386,000-square-foot
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on Feb. 28 reported that its new Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program will distribute $185 million to 45 projects; this includes six capital construction grants (with one rail-related project) and 39 planning grants (with nine rail-related projects).
Union Pacific (UP) finalizes contracts for four hybrid cranes to test in its intermodal yards. Also, the government of Canada is investing up to C$12.5 million in an infrastructure project at the CN-served Port of Belledune in New Brunswick; and intermodal services firm Western IntermodeX acquires Quickload Logistics to boost import transload capacity in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
More environmental assessment and testing will take place at the former Houston Wood Preserving Works (HWPW), which closed in 1984, according to Union Pacific (UP). The Class I railroad inherited the Houston, Tex., site in 1997 after its merger with Southern Pacific Transportation Company (Southern Pacific Railroad).
Just when you thought things were getting really interesting in the railroad industry, along comes another hedge fund trying to grab hold of a Class I, turn it upside down and shake
The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) arbitration program for small rate disputes will not go forward as written in its Dec. 19, 2022, rule.