Posts by William Wallace

From businessinsider.com   By Andrew Stern  Jul. 21, 2016, 12:56 PM   A freight train more than 10,000 feet long, hauling hundreds of shipping containers, sits idle in residential Chicago. It’s the middle of the afternoon, and the CSX train is just parked there. Waiting. At this stretch of railroad, known as the 75th Street Corridor, that…

From inforum.com By Jessica Holdman / Bismarck Tribune on Jul 21, 2016 at 7:51 p.m.   SPOKANE, Wash. — A proposal by the city of Spokane, Wash., that would fine rail companies for cars carrying crude oil sets a “dangerous precedent” of targeting specific commodities that move by rail, according to BNSF Railway. But the Spokane…

From The Hill Canadian regulators are pushing up the deadline for old tank cars to be banned from carrying crude oil. Tank cars that do not meet new safety standards from Canada’s federal government must not carry oil after Nov. 1 under a new schedule due to be formally announced Monday, CBC News reported. That’s…

From The Hill Over 50 bipartisan lawmakers are urging federal agencies to investigate a pending Chinese rail car deal that say would threaten national security. In a letter to the Department of the Treasury, House members blasted a pending joint venture with the North Carolina-based rail manufacturing company Vertex Railcar Corporation, and two Chinese corporations,…

From The Hill  The Federal Railroad Administration is considering a rule that would require most trains to have a minimum number of crew members. During a Friday public hearing on the proposal, union groups, policymakers and stakeholders weighed in on whether most rail operations should be staffed with at least two qualified workers. The regulation,…