April 3, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: ProPublica, April 3, 2023) Driven by the efficiency goals of precision scheduled railroading, companies are forgoing long-held safety precautions, such as assembling trains to distribute weight and risk or taking the proper time to inspect them. Instead,...
April 3, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, Remote Control, UP
(Source: NBC News, April 1, 2023) Congress is pushing to mandate a specific crew size on trains following a series of dangerous incidents. But the legislation leaves out a type of train that regularly carries hazardous chemicals in major metropolitan areas with no...
April 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS
(Source: Associated Press, March 31, 2023) The federal government filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and...
April 3, 2023 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, March 30, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has published the results of its train-to-train impact test evaluating the effectiveness of crash energy management (CEM) components in improving crashworthiness for equipped locomotives...
April 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: New York Times, April 3, 2023) “It’s profit over everything, not just safety,” Mark Wallace, First Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said in reference to the entire rail industry. “It’s profit over customer service. It’s...
