Freight railroads curtail operations as extreme winter weather blasts through
UP, KCS and NS modify intermodal service amid power outages, bitter cold
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Extreme winter weather is disrupting freight rail operations in the southern and central U.S. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Bitter cold, heavy snowfall and power outages over swaths of the South and Midwest are crimping much of the U.S. freight rail network and causing service disruptions.
“Another winter storm will slam the South Wednesday, taking nearly the same track as the historic storm earlier this week,” FreightWaves reported. “That storm produced daily record snowfalls and record low temperatures in many places.”