March 6, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: ABC News, March 5, 2023) No hazardous materials were involved after a Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday near Springfield, Ohio, officials said, the second such incident in just over a month. A Norfolk Southern representative said that 28 train cars of...
March 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: DC Velocity, March 3, 2023) Railroad union members are backing a bipartisan bill in Congress that would require more stringent rail safety standards in the aftermath of a 50-car train wreck in February that spilled toxic chemicals around the town of East...
March 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Buffalo News, March 5, 2023) James P. Louis, a union officer for Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said Saturday he’s been working in the railroad industry for 40 years and has witnessed the cutbacks firsthand. Full story: Buffalo...
March 6, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: CBS News, March 5, 2023) A train with 18 cars filled with grain derailed just outside of Wellington, Kansas, on Saturday just after 5 p.m., Union Pacific confirmed in a statement to CBS News. No one was injured in the derailment and no hazardous materials...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Freight Waves, March 2, 2023) The National Transportation Safety Board “is looking closely” at how aluminum protective housing covers on three tank cars carrying vinyl chloride performed after the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train near East...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, March 3, 2023) Residents who say they’re still suffering from illnesses nearly a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Ohio confronted the railroad’s operator Thursday at a town forum, demanding to know whether they’d be...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 2, 2023) Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a letter to the state’s environmental protection agency expressing concern that dioxins may have been released when some of the chemicals in the damaged railcars...
March 2, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: The Guardian, February 27, 2023) The PR push is a window into a years-long, multimillion-dollar campaign by America’s biggest railroad corporations to win favor among federal regulators and policymakers and push back against calls for tougher regulation – a...
March 2, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: CNBC, March 1, 2023) The presidents of U.S. railroad unions told Biden administration officials that rail workers have fallen ill at the Norfolk Southern derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, in a push for more train safety. Rail workers who have worked or...
March 2, 2023 | Derailment, DOT, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: ABC News, February 28, 2023) U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is calling on the rail operator at the center of a hazardous train derailment in Ohio to join a program that would allow its employees to voluntarily and confidentially report close...
