March 3, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Legislation, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 3 — The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a two-person crew railroad safety bill earlier this month, thanks in part to cooperative efforts from the BLET’s New Mexico State Legislative Board and the New Mexico Federation of Labor,...
March 3, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, UP
(Source: The Guardian, March 3, 2023) In leaked audio heard by the Guardian, a manager for one of the US’s largest rail companies can be heard explaining to a former carman that they should stop tagging railcars for broken bearings. The manager says doing so delays...
March 3, 2023 | DOT, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Reuters, March 2, 2023) Seven major North American freight rail companies on Thursday agreed to join a voluntary employee safety reporting program after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had urged the action following a Feb. 3 derailment in East...
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...
