March 10, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, March 8, 2023) U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 4, 2023 (Week 9) dipped 6.3% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Feb. 22. U.S. Class I railroads hauled a total of 474,191 carloads and...
March 10, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 8, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration today proposed a rule that would require railroads to provide emergency breathing apparatus for locomotive crews who are operating trains carrying hazardous materials that would pose an...
March 10, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Associated Press, March 10, 2023) U.S. railroads were warned to take certain cars out of service Thursday after Norfolk Southern discovered loose wheels on a car involved in last weekend’s derailment in Ohio. NS said in a statement that after the railroad...
March 10, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR
(Source: USA Today, March 10, 2023) Every day, the nation’s railroads move millions of tons of raw materials and finished goods around the country on about 140,000 miles of rails, but their safety record is getting new attention amid the ongoing scrutiny of the...
March 9, 2023 | CSX, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 9, 2023) SANDSTONE, W.Va. — An empty coal train hit a rockslide along tracks in West Virginia on Wednesday morning, causing a fiery derailment that injured three crewmembers, CSX Transportation said in a statement. Full story: National...
March 9, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Yahoo Finance, March 8, 2023) Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Vice President and National Legislative Representative Vince Verna joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the Ohio train derailments, railroad regulation, and the outlook for...
March 9, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, PSR
Federal regulators are looking into a previously unreported incident involving Norfolk Southern potentially mishandling a conductor’s concern on a train carrying hazardous material just weeks after a similar defect precipitated the derailment in East Palestine,...
March 9, 2023 | Headlines, Legislation, War on Workers
(Source: Detroit News, March 8, 2023) The Democratic-led Michigan House approved a package of bills Wednesday repealing the state’s decade-old right-to-work law and restoring prevailing wage requirements for government contracts, reversing two key policies...
March 9, 2023 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety
(The Lever, March 9, 2023) In 2004, a registered lobbyist for a railroad corporation got himself elected to the U.S. Senate, and then he promptly helped his former client become eligible for billions in cheap federal loans in the wake of the company’s hazmat train...
March 9, 2023 | Congressional Hearing, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source; USA Today, March 9, 2023) Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw will face a U.S. Senate panel Thursday as his company contends with increased scrutiny over a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. Full story: USA Today
