May 30, 2024 | Accident, Health & Welfare, News
In an interview with Ohio’s Dayton Daily News, BLET National Secretary-Treasurer David Estes discussed the psychological trauma that locomotive engineers endure when they are involved in fatal pedestrian or vehicle incidents. It is an all-too-familiar scenario for...
November 29, 2023 | Accident, Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Associated Press, November 24, 2023) Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a shipping container filled with...
November 22, 2023 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 21, 2023) A 911 call center on Monday took some responsibility for an Amtrak train derailment last week in southwestern Michigan, saying it misidentified a crossing and contacted a different railroad to warn that a car was stuck on...
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...
May 11, 2023 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, May 10, 2023) On April 16, 2023, about 6:44 p.m. local time, southbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) train GSHFCC 15 collided with train UP RDACO 14 in Chico Yard in Chico, Texas.[1] GSHFCC 15, a loaded...
September 19, 2022 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Cleveland.com, September 19, 2022) A 20-year-old woman was seriously injured when police put her in the back of a patrol car that was parked on a rail crossing, and the car ended up being hit by a train, reports say. Full story:...
August 25, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 24, 2022) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating a collision that occurred July 15 between an Amtrak train and a Union Pacific Railroad roadway maintenance machine in Oakland, California. Full story:...
August 24, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMBC, August 24, 2022) A judge has ruled multiple civil lawsuits can proceed in court after the deadly Amtrak derailment near Mendon, Missouri in June. Full story: www.kmbc.com
August 11, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 11, 2022) Video from a locomotive camera shows that the operator of a Union Pacific maintenance-of-way vehicle turned in front of an Amtrak train and fouled the track just prior to a July collision in Oakland, according to the National...
June 29, 2022 | Accident, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Television station KVII, June 28, 2022) PANHANDLE, Texas — A memorial was unveiled in Panhandle on Tuesday, six years after a deadly train collision. Placed at the crash site, the new memorial honors Lara Taylor, Kenneth “KP” Smith and Cody Owens. On June 28,...