October 13, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: KOAA, October 10, 2023) Eight cars of a Union Pacific train derailed south of Colorado Springs on October 10, spilling military vehicles and equipment along the tracks. Full story: www.koaa.com
October 13, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, Remote Control
(Source: Associated Press, October 6, 2023) Some railroad unions want more scrutiny of the safety of remote control operations major railroads have used for years in and around railyards without significant problems. Remote control helps limit costs by using less...
October 13, 2023 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains.com, October 9, 2023) The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s Ohio State Legislative Board is backing the proposed sale of municipally owned Cincinnati Southern Railway to Norfolk Southern. Full story: Trains.com
October 5, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, NS, UP
(Source: Trains.com, October 4, 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City has imposed an 8,500-foot train length restriction on the Meridian Speedway, the shortcut between the Southeast and Southwest that is a joint venture with Norfolk Southern. The move affects just one...
October 5, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains.com, October 3, 2023) The CSX Transportation carman who was struck and killed by a pair of locomotives in Walbridge Yard on Sept. 17 was walking from his truck to line and lock a switch at the time of the accident, the National Transportation Board...
October 5, 2023 | Headlines, NS, Technology
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 2, 2023) For the second time in a month, Norfolk Southern Railway experienced a technology outage that impacted rail operations. On Sept. 30, the Class I announced its data center experienced an outage, which impacted the...
October 5, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: National Public Radio, October 3, 2023) Candy Kiehl has lived in the same home in East Palestine her entire life. The house began as her grandparents’ home, then her parents’ and eventually hers. But for the last eight months, Kiehl has lived in a Best...
October 5, 2023 | Headlines, Lawsuit, UP
(Source: Associated Press, October 2, 2023) The federal government has joined more than a dozen former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind. The lawsuit focuses on a vision test...
October 5, 2023 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, October 3, 2023) A cut of cars ran away downgrade on BNSF Railway’s Slaton Subdivision in the Texas Panhandle on Sunday morning and collided with the lead locomotive of a stationary train, demolishing its cab. The crew was warned ahead of time and...
October 5, 2023 | Headlines, STB
(Source: Railway Age, October 3, 2023) U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., want the Surface Transportation Board to press on with a rulemaking they say could enable shippers to receive better rail service and make the U.S. rail network...
