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Operation Lifesaver shares 2017 Rail Safety Week report, announces joint U.S.-Canada effort in 2018
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI), the national, nonprofit rail safety education group, today reported that messages about crossing safety and trespass prevention reached millions of...
NTSB will meet to determine cause of 2015 crash in Roswell, N.M.
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of an accident involving two freight trains in Roswell, New Mexico in 2015; the board...
$10 billion Baltimore-D.C. maglev train narrows down to two routes
(Source: Curbed DC, February 5, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are now two possible routes narrowed down by the Federal Railroad Administration in the hopes to build a high-speed, magnetic levitating train between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. If...
Rail safety improvements paying dividends in Montana
(Source: The Missoulian, February 9, 2018) MISSOULA, Mont. — Railroad related accidents and incidents in Montana have decreased 55 percent in the past 10 years, and on-duty employee injuries dropped 63 percent in that time, according to data from the Federal Railroad...
North Dakota rail safety program finds nearly 2,700 defects in 2017
(Source: Associated Press, February 8, 2018) BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota's Public Service Commission says state rail safety inspectors found nearly 2,700 defects to tracks and equipment last year. Full story: Bismarck Tribune
The great crude oil fireball test
(Source: The Atlantic, February 5, 2018) NEW YORK — Fracking has created a wider variety of crude oils, but is one more destructive than another? There’s only one way to find out. If all goes well, a massive fireball of hydrocarbons will ignite in the New Mexico...
UP CEO: Leaving NAFTA would undo progress
(Source: Washington Post opinion column by Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the chief executive officer of the United States' largest publicly traded railroad, I have a comprehensive view of the nation’s economy. Freight railroads...
Search for answers, solutions continues as rail accidents pile up
(Source: Sinclair Broadcast Group, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After four fatal accidents involving Amtrak trains in the last two months, including one that left a train dangling off an overpass and one that led to a spill of 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel,...
Amtrak CEO to testify before U.S. House panel in wake of recent accidents
(Source: Reuters, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson will testify next week before a U.S. House of Representatives panel on the adoption of anti-crash technologies in the wake of a number of fatal accidents involving...
Widow of Amtrak conductor sues CSX and Amtrak after S.C. fatality
(Source: Reuters, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The widow of an Amtrak train conductor killed this week in a South Carolina collision filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Amtrak and CSX Corp, the Florida Times-Union reported. Full story: www.usnews.com
