September 3, 2008 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(This article by Noah Bierman appeared in the Boston Globe on September 3) BOSTON, MA – A train engineer facing scrutiny for his role in a runaway freight car crash has refused to answer key questions under oath in a civil case, citing his right against...
September 3, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(Article appeared on the Progressive Railroading.com web page on September 2) Norfolk Southern Railway has petitioned the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to re-examine and amend its conclusion regarding the cause of an October 2006 derailment in New...
September 3, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following appeared on the Enid News & Eagle website on September 2.) ENID, Okla. — The investigation into a triple-fatality crash involving a fully loaded propane truck and Union Pacific train that left three men dead still is ongoing by the Oklahoma Highway...
September 2, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following appeared on the Enid News & Eagle website on September 1.) ENID, Okla. — The driver of a truck hauling propane gas struck by a train south of Medford Friday morning has died. Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported late Sunday night Dennis Wayne Etherton,...
September 2, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following story by Kasey Fowler appeared on the Enid News & Eagle website on August 29.) MEDFORD, Okla. — Two people were killed and another critically injured Friday morning when a freight train hit a propane tanker truck south of here, triggering a massive...
August 29, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The Associated Press circulated the following by Sean Murphy on August 29.) MEDFORD, Okla. — A locomotive train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities...
August 18, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Helen J. Simon appeared on the Burlington Free Press website on August 16.) BURLINGTON, Vt. — A derailment by a New England Central Railroad train in White River Junction closed the track for about six hours Friday and forced the busing of...
July 16, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Stacey Becker appeared on the Telegraph Herald website on July 16.) GUTTENBERG, Iowa — The environmental impact of the four derailed locomotives in the backwaters of the Mississippi River remains a mystery. It’s a mystery that the Iowa...
July 15, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Linda Deutsch on July 14.) LOS ANGELES — The life-or-death decision about the fate of a man convicted of murdering 11 people by causing a commuter train derailment in 2005 was placed in the hands of jurors Monday...
July 11, 2008 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(The following story by Glenn Kauth appeared on the Edmonton Sun website on July 11.) EDMONTON — Luck and timing prevented yesterday’s CN train derailment at a Sherwood Park overpass from becoming deadly, police say. Const. Wally Henry of the Strathcona County...
