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
February 15, 2024 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains.com, February 13, 2024) In the latest step in its ongoing investigation into on-time performance for Amtrak’s Sunset Limited, the Surface Transportation Board has asked the passenger operator and the train’s host railroads to answer a series of...
February 15, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, February 9, 2024) For the second time in the past three months, federal regulators are being asked to settle a dispute related to Union Pacific’s 1996 acquisition of Southern Pacific. Full story: Trains.com
February 9, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety
(Source: Television station KSTP, February 8, 2024) As a fifth-generation railroader, John Mozinski has a front-row seat at Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) – but he says that view is not what it used to be. “The railroad should be concerned. The public should be...
