Car Wars

Railroad Weekly September 18, 2023

Photography by Frederick Manfred Simon © www.steelwheels.photography

Inside This Issue  

·   Car Wars: Autoworkers Strike Detroit; Rail Freight Threatened

·   The New Chief’s Beliefs: UP’s Vena Delivers First Public Speech as CEO  

·   Just the Two of Us: CN and NS to Forge New Intermodal Partnership

·   One is Greater than Three: CPKC Extols the Virtues of its New MMX Offering

·   Montreal Stall: CN Calls Current Biz Conditions “Very Volatile”

·   Box Bottom: Growing Talk that Intermodal has Finally Reached its Trough  

·   You Can Keep It: Trucking Firm Werner Trash Talks the Intermodal Biz

·   Dance to the Wheat: Peak Grain Transport Season Getting Underway  

Track Talk

“I’ll promise you this, we’re going to be the best. We’re going to have the best margin. We’re going to have the best service, and we’re going to have the best safety record. And if we do that, customers will want to come with us. They’ll see what we can do, and we’ll win.”

-Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena, speaking last week at a Morgan Stanley investor event

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