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 ...

The Surface Transportation Board exceeded its authority when issuing a rule requiring rail carriers to allow competitors onto their tracks to curb delays, an appeals court says. Because a rule put in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...