April 6, 2023 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Television station WCVB, April 5, 2023) Millions of dollars meant for repairs and maintenance on the MBTA Commuter Rail system were stolen through a fraud scheme involving a high-ranking engineer and the former general manager of an electrical company,...
April 6, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, April 5, 2023) U.S. rail traffic in March 2023 dropped from the same month last year—down 7.6% or 192,349 carloads and intermodal units, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported April 5. This follows February’s 5.2% drop from the...
April 6, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Star Tribune, March 29, 2023) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A 41-year-old Sauk Rapids man will serve 18 months in prison for climbing onto a train and assaulting the locomotive engineer with a knife last fall. The engineer told police a man jumped on the train,...
April 6, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, NS
(Source: Chronicle-Telegram, April 6, 2023) U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, and JD Vance, R-OH, and U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, sent a letter to Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw on Wednesday demanding the railroad company take responsibility and pay immediately...
April 6, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Greenville News, April 1, 2023) According to a call to police from a CSX conductor, a suspect described as an “armed gunman” was seen standing on the tracks near the train. It appears to the caller that this was an attempt to get the train to stop and...
