The U.S. Transportation Board made history in North Dakota September 4, holding its first field hearing there, and packing in a crowd of testifiers and onlookers concerned about whether railroads can make the trains run on time. 

 

STB Chairman Daniel R. Elliott II, a former transportation union lawyer, presided before a cramped meeting room and told the audience some problems in the railroad have gotten worse since an April 10, hearing in Washington abut fertilizer shipping.  He said he is looking for solutions to allow the shipping of the 2014 crop, even as the agricultural industry ships the 2013 crop.

 

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