What’s Really Going On in Memphis? June 09, 2021 BNSF’s intermodal facility, Memphis, Tenn. Photo courtesy Wilson & Company In a somewhat-unexpected action, Surface Transportation Board (STB) Chairman Martin Oberman recently suggested some ideas and offered borderline critique about pending public railroad issues. During my long railroad career, such displays of opinion were restricted normally to written official procedural decisions text. A lot of this is geographically following congestion and related intermodal rail service issues around Memphis. Here is my strategic view. A colleague was kind enough to suggest that I might have a few strategic or otherwise insightful opinions about the extent of and the possible solutions for the rail intermodal service problems in Memphis. Why Jim Blaze? Maybe because some are aware of my long-ago urban goods movement role as a regional planner in Chicago and my learning experience as past national Chairman role of the Transportation Research Board Urban Goods Movement Committee.