March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety, Unions
(Source: Television station WFMJ, March 6, 2023) It’s been more than a month since the toxic train derailment that dominated headlines across the nation. On Monday, Norfolk Southern announced a new safety plan that might prevent disaster in the future. Some...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, SMART-TD
(Source: Bloomberg News, March 7, 2023) More than six months before February’s toxic train derailment, a union representing Norfolk Southern Corp. employees in Ohio warned federal regulators that the railroad repeatedly disregarded its own safety rules for screening...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WKRC, March 7, 2023) Norfolk Southern’s accident rate has climbed steadily nationally and in Ohio in the last 10 years, according to a Local 12 Investigates analysis of federal rail safety data. Full story:...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, March 7, 2023) Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said on Tuesday the railroad will hold safety meetings and work to revitalize its safety culture as U.S. officials announced two new wide-ranging reviews in the wake of a spate of accidents. Full story:...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, PSR, Technology
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 6, 2023) Installing sensors on freight cars is the only way to prevent another disastrous derailment like the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern hazardous materials wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, a wheel bearing expert says. Full story: Trains...
March 7, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: CNBC, March 6, 2023) Hours after a 28-car Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday in Springfield, Ohio — the third incident for the freight railroad in just over a month, including the toxic disaster in East Palestine, Ohio — internal emails show railroad...
March 7, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: Politico, March 6, 2023) The railroad responsible for last month’s toxic train derailment in Ohio will roll out pledges Monday to make its trains safer, just days before its CEO is set to testify to Congress for the first time about its role in the disaster....
March 7, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WHTM, March 6, 2023) Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced that he has received commitment from Norfolk Southern to pay millions of dollars for damages to Pennsylvania and its residents as a result of the Feb. 3 train derailment in...
March 6, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: CNN, March 4, 2023) A day after angry residents repeatedly interrupted a railroad company official at a town hall, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office released the results of health assessment surveys conducted in East Palestine, revealing the most common...
March 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, AAR Freight Trends, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: CNN, March 4, 2023) The nation’s major freight railroads have long desired to have only one crew member, a lone engineer, in the cab of their locomotives. And that desire hasn’t changed despite the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3 that...
