Commentary

• September 08, 2022
• Intercity

Amtrak’s Gulf Coast Service Will Impose Sizable Costs on Freight Railroads

Armed with $66 billion in federal funds from 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Amtrak has begun making plans to increase service across the country. Unfortunately, many of the markets it wants

Commentary

• July 08, 2022
• Intermodal

PSR Actually Helped Shippers Deal with Supply Chain Shocks

In the past decade, most Class I railroads have adopted what has come to be called Precision Schedule Railroading. PSR entails railroads running longer trains on fixed schedules, thereby allowing them to potentially carry significantly more freight on a rail network more reliably and at lower cost.