September 11, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: CNN, September 10, 2013) MADRID — The judge investigating the train crash that killed 79 people last July is expanding the preliminary charges to include numerous top officials of the state railway infrastructure company, Adif, for alleged negligence, a...
August 23, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Columbus Dispatch, August 23, 2013) COLUMBUS, Ohio — A single railroad tanker car carrying 23,000 gallons of a solvent derailed on the South Side yesterday morning, causing the evacuation of about a dozen homes and the closure of Parsons Avenue while the car...
August 21, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: CNN, August 21, 2013) MADRID — The judge in charge of the investigation into a horrific train crash in Spain last month has presented preliminary charges against the state-run rail infrastructure company, Adif. Until now, attention has focused on the driver...
August 9, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(Source: Daily World, August 8, 2013) OPELOUSAS, La. — Speculation holds that either metal fatigue in the rails or a seized bearing in a wheel are the likely causes of Sunday’s train derailment in Lawtell. Full story: Daily World
August 9, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, August 8, 2013) LAWTELL, La. — Authorities opened U.S. Highway 190 in St. Landry Parish in both directions Thursday and allowed an estimated 150 people to return to homes and businesses in an area that was evacuated after a weekend train...
August 8, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 8, 2013) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The number of pedestrians fatally struck by trains across the nation jumped 26 percent through the first five months of this year, according to new federal data. Pedestrian railroad deaths reached 199...
August 8, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(Source: The Advertiser, August 7, 2013) LAWTELL, La. — Contractors for Union Pacific Railroad and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality employees workers are working to contain chemical spills after Sunday’s train derailment left a host of agents leaking from...
May 30, 2013 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Connecticut Post, May 28, 2013) WEST HAVEN, Conn. — A longtime Metro-North Railroad employee died Tuesday when a train hit him as he worked at the site of the city’s new station. Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders...
May 30, 2013 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: Baltimore Sun, May 28, 2013) BALTIMORE, Md. — The freight train that derailed Tuesday in Rosedale carried one chemical classified as hazardous by the U.S. Department of Transportation and another that also posed risks for firefighters and others at the scene...
May 30, 2013 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, May 29, 2013) OMAHA, Neb. — Derailments and crossing accidents have steadily declined nationwide even as businesses have come to increasingly rely on trains to move their raw materials and products. That might surprise anyone who is familiar...
