Northeast U.S.

Q&A: New Conrail president sees ample intermodal opportunities in Northeast

A composite image of two photographs. A Conrail train locomotive on the left and a man on the right.

Brain E. Gorton, Conrail’s president and chief operating officer since April, recently chatted with FreightWaves about his vision for Conrail, a U.S. Northeast terminal railroad jointly owned by CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC). As described in an October 2019 FreightWaves piece, Conrail “performs car switching and yard classification work for its two owners, Norfolk Southern and CSX. It does not bill shippers or participate in the waybill. Strictly speaking, it serves as the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/qa-new-conrail-president-sees-ample-intermodal-opportunities-in-northeast

Northeast Transportation Climate Initiative meets opposition

Three retail fuels industry trade groups oppose TCI.

An initiative in the U.S. Northeast designed in part to drive reduced carbon emissions in the transportation sector has met opposition from the retail fuels industry.

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia were the first governmental bodies to sign on to the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) earlier this month. That was followed by a joint statement of opposition from NATSO, the National Association of Convenience Stores and the Society of...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/northeast-transportation-climate-initiative-meets-opposition

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