Paul Wiedefeld will step down from his position as secretary of Maryland's Department of Transportation in August.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation ...

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking candidates to fill vacancies on two of its advisory groups, the Rail Energy ...

If a transcontinental rail merger is proposed — as has been a subject of speculation in recent months — it would be up to the ...

As the proverb provides, “Be careful for what you wish,” as wishes sometimes deliver unintended consequences. Railroads may have experienced a wishes backfire July 8 when the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that gave shippers with poor rail service access to a second railroad.

STB says the Kansas City Southern Railway Company can transport grain using Union Pacific Railroad Company tracks between ...

A federal court has tossed out the Surface Transportation Board’s 2024 reciprocal switching rule that would have allowed ...

The Surface Transportation Board has denied Metra’s request for a temporary injunction or emergency service order protecting ...

Following last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned a federal appeals court’s rejection of the Surface Transportation Board’s 2021 approval of the railroad, the Seven County ...

A decision issued late last week by the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board approved the rail line in 2021, after a lengthy environmental review of the potential effects on air pollution, wetlands, wildlife, and more.