February 15, 2024 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Freight Waves, February 14, 2024) An investigation is underway after a CSX worker was killed on the job Tuesday in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. on CSX’s Northend Subdivision, according to the Roanoke Rapids Police...
February 15, 2024 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, February 12, 2024) NTSB investigators have begun conducting observations and interviews regarding the fatality of a Ohio Central Railroad signal maintainer. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released...
February 15, 2024 | CPKC, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: Associated Press, February 7, 2024) Not only is CPKC lagging the trend of major freight railroads agreeing to provide paid sick time to most of their workers, but now some of its dispatchers may lose the benefit later this year when they move to the merged...
February 15, 2024 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety, UP
(Source: The Gazette, February 11, 2024) As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year — debate meaningful rail-safety legislation — Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in Grand County are...
February 15, 2024 | Headlines, Long Trains, NS, PSR
(Source: CNBC, February 10, 2024) Ancora is a $9 billion wealth advisory firm that has been using activism more often and has developed into an activist to be respected and feared. With an approximate $1 billion position in Norfolk Southern, the firm likely has a...
February 15, 2024 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, February 12, 2024) Seventeen cars of a BNSF intermodal train derailed early this morning (Monday, Feb. 12) east of Hazelton on the railroad’s Southern Transcon, KWNS-TV reports. Full story: Trains.com
February 15, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Sacramento Bee, February 12, 2024) A Union Pacific train carrying 118 tons of coal derailed Sunday due to a track defect and dumped its contents into and around Plumas County’s Feather River, according to railroad officials and the California Department of...
February 15, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Clinton Herald, February 10, 2024) No one was injured when a train derailed Friday in the Union Pacific rail yard at South 23rd Street and Liberty Avenue, spilling 1,000 to 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel. According to a release from the City of Clinton, the...
February 15, 2024 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: News Channel Nebraska, February 9, 2024) Hall County Emergency Management has confirmed there are no injuries after 57 BNSF train cars loaded with coal derailed near Cairo early Friday morning. Full story: News Channel Nebraska
February 15, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains.com, February 11, 2024) Fourteen cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed early Saturday morning near the town of Aurora, leading to a leak of molten sulfur from one car. No injuries were reported. Full story: Trains.com
