September 10, 2021 | Headlines, Oil Train, Railroad Security
(Source: United States Department of Justice press release, September 9, 2021) SEATTLE — A 28-year-old Bellingham, Washington woman was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Seattle of violence against a railroad carrier, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M....
September 10, 2021 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: KING5, September 10, 2021) CUSTER, Wash. — “Possible vandalism” was a contributing cause of a fiery Whatcom County oil train derailment in December 2020, according to a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report released Thursday. The BNSF...
September 10, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 8, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 4, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was...
September 10, 2021 | CP, Headlines, KCS
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 8, 2021) CHICAGO — Canadian Pacific’s merger negotiations with Kansas City Southern are progressing in the wake of last week’s regulatory decision that dealt a blow to the proposed Canadian National-KCS combination. Full story:...
September 10, 2021 | Canada, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Thompson Citizen, September 9, 2021) THOMPSON, Manitoba — An inquest into the death of a man who was trapped for hours in a train following a 2018 derailment near Ponton won’t look at all the circumstances surrounding the crash, but mainly those surrounding...
