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Amtrak Seeks Expedited STB Treatment for Gulf Coast Amtrak Seeks Expedited STB Treatment for Gulf Coast Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor Amtrak on July 8 said it will renew its request that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) intervene on its behalf if CSX and Norfolk Southern (NS) don’t cooperate on hosting new passenger service between New Orleans and Mobile. In an STB filing planned for submission this week, Amtrak did note that the Class I railroads have responded to its call for access so it can prepare for a service launch on or around Jan. 1, 2022. In the filing (download below), Amtrak wrote that it “respectfully renews its request for expedited treatment of its [March 16, 2021] application asking that the Board institute a proceeding and establish the procedural schedule proposed by Amtrak” for a hearing, followed by an order requiring CSX and NS to allow Amtrak to operate twice ....
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. Which of the big seven U.S. railroads could make 2021 the year of railroad advanced cargo visibility thus introducing a real game changer for railroad cargo shippers? Something more than just a cheap, small, smart communicating sensor indicating whether the rail car doors are closed. Shippers need something more robust. And rail shippers want it now, not in 10 to 12 years. Rail customers want to have usable logistics intelligence in an open-architecture API integrator software application a service that delivers carload freight location and condition information into a meaningful, easy-to-understand status report message. They do not care about the device used. ....
I often am asked why I write for FreightWaves when I am a railway man. There is a simple answer. If you want to beat your competitor, do not spend too much time looking internally at only the railway part you already know. Instead, keep your eyes on what the lead dogs are doing. Writing for FreightWaves gives a rail journalist a strategic advantage, because FreightWaves uses near-real-time digital age traffic analysis techniques. Like logisticians, FreightWaves follows the trucks and other patterns. It does it every day. In contrast, railroad market viewing often takes a month or longer. The modern tools used by FreightWaves and other digital watchers are using interesting graphics and templates in near-real-time mode. ....