November 7, 2014 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, November 6, 2014) OTTAWA — A train engineer is missing after a derailment sent a locomotive plunging into a river about 20 kilometres north of Sept-Îles, Quebec. Preliminary reports suggest a landslide forced the locomotive off the tracks, which run...
October 17, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, October 16, 2014) WINSLOW, Ark. — A freight train collided with a sight-seeing passenger train in northwest Arkansas on Thursday, injuring more than a dozen people, authorities said. Full story: ABC News
August 15, 2014 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, August 15, 2014) SAVANNAH, Ga. — A production company formed to make a biographical film about singer Greg Allman was cited by federal regulators Thursday for workplace safety violations stemming from a train crash in rural Georgia that...
July 16, 2014 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(Source: South Jersey Times, July 15, 2014) NEWARK, N.J. — The law firm representing Conrail, Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation in class action lawsuits related to the November 2012 train derailment in Paulsboro has requested a federal judge issue an...
May 29, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: South Jersey Times, May 29, 2014) PAULSBORO, N.J. — More than half of Paulsboro residents surveyed experienced some type of symptoms following a November 2012 train derailment and chemical spill, a New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) report states. Full...
May 29, 2014 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Covington News, May 28, 2014) SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — A CSX railroad employee was significantly injured at General Mills’ distribution center in Social Circle around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The worker, who has not yet been identified, was spotting a train as...
May 15, 2014 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review, May 14, 2014. BLET editor’s note: Andrew Monheim was a member of BLET Division 700 in Braddock, Pa., and had belonged to the Brotherhood for more than 31 years at the time of his passing in 2010.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The family...
May 13, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Forum News Service, May 12, 2014) PILLAGER, Minn. — Coal and crushed metal littered the train tracks early Monday as crews worked to clear the scene of a train derailment on a BNSF Railway line near Pillager. Full story: West Central...
May 9, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: RTV Channel 6 (Indianapolis), May 8, 2014) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The head of the National Transportation Board said this week that the nation’s railroads pose a catastrophic threat to the U.S. population. It was a point underscored in Indianapolis on...
March 24, 2014 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: USA Today, March 24, 2014) CHICAGO — At least 32 people were injured, none seriously, when an eight-car train crashed through a barrier at the end of the platform and jumped up an escalator at O’Hare International Airport on Monday, according to...
