Whoever said that must have been the inspiration for CSX and Norfolk Southern. The two freight railroads are bitterly opposing Amtrak’s efforts to run one—yes, that’s right—one round-trip passenger train a day between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. In lengthy written testimony presented to the Surface Transportation Board in Washington, lawyers for the two railroads…
Congestion and delays on the CSX network are continuing. The FRA’s Surface Transportation Board describes it as “widespread degradation of rail service” and the CSX brass are being formally summoned to a public hearing and asked to explain. The STB will be holding a formal hearing into the situation and among those testifying will…
If you were to stop a hundred people on the street and ask them who owns the tracks used by Amtrak’s long-distance trains, I’d guess that probably a third would say all that track is owned by the government, another third would say the railroads, and most of the rest would have no idea. …
Airline pilots are only permitted to be work for a specific number of hours. In most instances, a two-person crew can only be on duty for no more than ten hours in a 24-hour period. It’s the same for a railroad engineer—in fact, for the entire operating crew, which includes the engineer, the assistant…