Surface Transportation Practice: Railroads

Surface Transportation

Surface Transportation
Practice Areas

Bus Industry
Motor Carriers
Other Transportation Issues
Railroads
Surface Transportation Litigation

Railroads

Railroad Mergers and Acquisitions

Our firm has represented railroads, financial institutions and other major corporations in connection with railroad mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and other rail transactions requiring approval of the Surface Transportation Board. We represented major parties in the two largest recent rail merger proceedings. In the recent proceeding, involving the acquisition of Conrail, we represented the principal applicant, Norfolk Southern Railway.

Regional and Short Line Railroads

The firm serves as general counsel to the Texas Mexican Railway Company, one of the oldest railroads in the country. The firm has also represented other short line railroads on a wide variety of matters, including line sales, abandonments, trackage rights disputes, real estate issues and litigation.

Railroad Litigation

The firm has an active litigation practice before the Surface Transportation Board and the courts on behalf of railroads and others involving such matters as disputes over car hire, trackage rights compensation, rails-to-trails conversion, ownership of rail lines, labor disputes and labor protection requirements in railroad line sales.

Railroad Labor Issues

We provide advice and assistance, as well as litigation services, for clients on questions involving the application of the Railway Labor Act to certain transactions and groups of employees, and employee compensation and benefits. We have arbitrated rail labor issues before the National Railroad Adjustment Board.