Rail carriers struggling to provide adequate service could be required to allow competitors on their tracks under a proposed Surface Transportation Board rule aimed at curbing delays and increasing ...

The Surface Transportation Board has finalized a rule requiring railroad carriers to let competitors onto their tracks if there are service delays. The rule, unanimously adopted Tuesday by the ...

Focusing on promoting adequate railroad service, the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 7 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it said focused on “providing rail customers with access to reciprocal switching as a remedy for ...

The importance of preserving our democracy, and the concern that it’s at risk of being lost, seem to be the overriding themes of this year’s presidential election. In recent polling, 3 in 4 American ...

While the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes ...

Three dozen free market-oriented think-tankers and scholars sent a letter to the Surface Transportation Board on Feb. 9 protesting the agency’s proposed “reciprocal switching rule” for freight rail.

The Golden Rule, guest columnist writes, benefits all sides of the political spectrum and will help to ensure, in Lincoln’s words, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall ...