June 21, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NTSB, Railroad Safety
(Source: Associated Press, June 21, 2023) The Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would require all railroads to immediately send the details of everything aboard their trains to every emergency responder within...
June 21, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Politico, June 20, 2023) Four months after a Norfolk Southern train carrying a toxic cocktail of hazardous materials derailed there, East Palestine, Ohio, is back in the news. Chemical company CEOs, union officials, railroad lobbyists and federal...
June 21, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 19, 2023) KARRATHA, Australia — Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has begun an investigation after 30 cars of one of its autonomous iron ore trains derailed Saturday. Full story: Trains Magazine
June 21, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 19, 2023) BNSF Railway Co. is prepared for increasing intermodal volume through U.S. West Coast ports now that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have reached a...
June 21, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Lawsuit, NS
(Source: Television station WFMJ, June 20, 2023) Norfolk Southern Railroad is opposing efforts by the federal government and the State of Ohio to recoup the costs of cleaning up hazardous materials left following the derailment of one of their trains in East Palestine...
June 21, 2023 | Headlines, UP
(Source: KNOP, June 19, 2023) The Lincoln County 911 Center received a report on Sunday of a deceased person on a locomotive at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, just west of North Platte, at 2:25 p.m. Deputies located a badly decomposing male body in a small compartment...
June 21, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, June 19, 2023) Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman late last week responded to concerns raised by the Association of American Railroads about subjects discussed at the spring 2023 meeting of the board’s Rail Energy...
June 21, 2023 | Headlines, NS, PSR, Train Length
(Source: Television station WYFF, June 19, 2023) GREENVILLE, S.C. — If you’ve seen more trains idling, blocking intersections around the state, you’re not alone. According to reports gathered from the Federal Railroad Administration, there’s been a...
June 21, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 21, 2023) The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen Division has joined with BNSF Railway to support an effort to further use of technology analyzing the health of railcar brake systems. Full story: Trains Magazine
June 21, 2023 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 21, 2023) Amtrak and BNSF Railway are asking the city of Seattle to close a section of a street near the Seattle Mariners’ ballpark in the city’s Sodo neighborhood to expand the passenger carrier’s maintenance facility and eliminate a...
