The Surface Transportation Board has combined its two legal offices into one and named Anika Cooper as chief counsel, the board has announced. The changes were announced Monday (Aug. 4, 2025), but ...

The future of a long-awaited elevated park project in North Philadelphia could hinge on a ruling by an obscure federal board.

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the ...

The board is asking stakeholders to issue comments by June 5. The deadline to reply to comments is July 6. “Machine-readable invoicing may be one way to make the process of verifying demurrage ...

July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...

The Surface Transportation Board will require railroads to submit service recovery plans and provide additional data and regular progress reports on rail service, operations and employment ...

The Biden administration is asking the Surface Transportation Board, the independent, appointed body that regulates U.S. rail, to set a precedent by forcing railways to let Amtrak restart an old ...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board on Jan. 21 approved Canadian National Railway Co.’s request to acquire and operate Waterloo-based Iowa Northern Railway Co.’s 218-mile rail system.

The Surface Transportation Board [http://www.stb.dot.gov]of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of ...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a news update Friday, called on the parties involved in a lawsuit before them -- Amtrak and the freight operators along the route (CSX and Norfolk ...

Surface Transportation Board Docket No. FD 36369, Association of American Railroads—Petition for Declaratory Order, Served Dec. 30, 2020.

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking comments from shippers, carriers, and others on first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) service, which occurs when railcars are moved between a local railroad ...