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The 2022 United States railroad labor dispute was a labor dispute between freight railroads and workers in the United States. Rail companies and unions had tentatively agreed to a deal in September 2022, but it was rejected by a majority of the unions' rank-and-file members.
The project, called RailPulse, comes as the $99-billion U.S. freight railroad industry seeks to bolster volume that has been stagnant for more than a decade and as customers demand better service.
BNSF is one of the nation's largest railroads, with tracks crossing the Western United States. It is based in Fort Worth, Texas, and is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate of ...
In May 2023, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee passed sweeping rail safety reform legislation in the aftermath of the February 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio ...
The American High-Speed Rail Act is a proposed bill in the United States Congress. The bill would invest $205 billion into high-speed rail over five years. [1] [2] [3] The bill was reintroduced by congressman Seth Moulton. [4]
Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose wrote a letter to UP's top three executives Friday expressing his concern that the defects represent a “significant risk to rail safety " on the Union ...
Railroads in the United States in 1890. The low-cost of rail transportation, which was a small fraction of what it had been with wagon transport, resulted in a tremendous increase in all types of economic activity (such as farming, mining and ranching), particularly in the West.
The vote gives the leadership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen the right to call a strike July 18. Union train workers have been without a contract since 2019.