May 1, 2023 | CN, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: CTV News, April 28, 2023) Authorities are investigating after a “fatal incident” occurred on Canadian National Railway (CN) property in Montreal’s east end. An employee is said to have died during the incident, which took place in...
May 1, 2023 | Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: The Guardian, May 1, 2023) U.S. freight rail companies nearly spurred a nationwide railroad strike last fall by refusing to grant paid sick days, but in a surprise move welcomed by workers, those railroads have recently granted paid sick days to almost half...
May 1, 2023 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: CBS Minnesota, April 30, 2023) Work is still underway to clean up the mess from a train derailment last week in southwest Wisconsin. U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, who represents that area of Wisconsin, says he was in talks with the rail company before the...
May 1, 2023 | Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: ProPublica, May 1, 2023) After seeing images of kids crawling under trains, regulators ask companies to address blocked crossings, lawmakers demand consequences, residents clamor for solutions and Norfolk Southern’s CEO calls a mayor to work out a fix. Full...
May 1, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, STB, UP
(Source: Railway Age, April 28, 2023) Union Pacific (UP) on April 27 submitted a year-to-date progress report on embargoes, inventory management and system fluidity to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which last year ordered the Class I to explain its...
May 1, 2023 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 1, 2023) Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said high water and flooding may have been a factor in last week’s derailment of a BNSF derailment near De Soto, Wis., although investigation is continuing. That incident sent some cars into the...
May 1, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: The Times Leader, May 1, 2023) When the Environmental Protection Agency opened the floor to questions at the conclusion of Thursday’s air monitoring informational session at The Way Station in East Palestine, residents were ready. The EPA was not. Full story:...
May 1, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Midland Daily News, May 1, 2023) Dow has confirmed that it had product, ethylhexyl acrylate, in one railcar on the Norfolk Southern trail that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. According to the Associated Press, ethylHexyl acrylate is one of five toxic...
May 1, 2023 | CPKC, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, April 29, 2023) Maine environmental regulators have asked a railroad cleaning up a freight train derailment site to repair forest management roads and culverts damaged by heavy equipment and that led to the discharge of sediment into area...
May 1, 2023 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: CBS Sacramento, April 27, 2023) It’s been called the disaster lost in history: A local town, long before it became a bustling city, was rocked by explosions. Fifty years ago on Friday, a rail car carrying bombs bound for Vietnam exploded in Roseville....
