The Union Pacific Norfolk Southern merger application should move forward for continued regulatory review, the two railroads argue as they ask the Surface Transportation Board to reject attempts to dismiss the proposed transaction at an early stage.
Two-person train crews remain at the center of the Georgia Central Railroad case after the short line withdrew its request to operate one-person crews on August 27. The withdrawal ended a waiver effort opposed by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
CANADA: CPKC signal and communications workers are back on the job, but the CPKC arbitration process expected to resolve their outstanding contract dispute still has no publicly identified arbitrator, timetable or disclosed scope.
USA: The Natural Resources Defense Council has asked the Surface Transportation Board to strip the “highly confidential” label from UP-NS emission data, using the same argument that pried open the railroads’ employee numbers a month earlier.
Indian Railways moved 360 TEU out of Jawaharlal Nehru Port in a single coupled double-stack container formation on August 21, 2026. The train departed at 19:00 IST and ran about 422 km over the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor to CONCOR's GCT at Varnama, in the Vadodara division of Gujarat.
Canada: CPKC and IBEW binding arbitration will end a strike by approximately 300 signals and communications employees that began May 31, the railway announced on August 21.
GERMANY: DB Cargo has outlined capacity for up to 900 wagons as record-low Rhine levels severely restrict chemical and steel shipments by barge through western Germany.
UK: Deutsche Bahn has launched the DB Cargo UK sale, putting one of Britain's largest rail freight operators on the market despite sharply improved financial results.
AUSTRALIA: The CBH rail fleet has entered its biggest expansion yet, putting new locomotives into service as Western Australia seeks control of the tracks beneath them.
USA: A federal permit has cleared Louisiana's $1.8 billion container terminal downriver from a bridge that keeps today's largest ships from reaching existing New Orleans port facilities.
USA: BNSF Railway has expanded its Phoenix–Dallas-Fort Worth intermodal service to six days a week, months before the first phase of Logistics Park Phoenix is expected to open.
CANADA: The CN hybrid locomotive programme now includes three units under testing, while two more yard locomotives are scheduled for conversion by the end of 2026.
