February 26, 2021 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Transportation Safety Board press release, February 25, 2021) GATINEAU, Quebec — Following an initial review of its 2020 data, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is today providing a summary of preliminary transportation occurrence statistics....
April 14, 2020 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, April 13, 2020) NEW YORK — Most readers are very aware of the massive impact that the coronavirus has had on passenger rail operations, both transit and Amtrak. Amtrak released information about its service plan on Friday,...
October 23, 2019 | Accident, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Detroit News, October 22, 2019) DETROIT — A General Motors Co. employee was struck by a car and killed Tuesday while out picketing on the strike line near the automaker’s Tennessee plant, according to police. Roy A. McCombs died while on strike with the...
August 2, 2019 | Accident, BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Aurora Beacon-News, August 1, 2019) CHICAGO — A 19-year-old man was killed when wood panels he was unloading from a rail car in Aurora Thursday morning fell on him, police said. Andy Williams, a spokesman for the railroad police, said the man who died worked...
April 15, 2019 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(Source: The Chattanoogan, April 14, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A 24-year employee of CSX Transportation has been killed in an accident at the Wauhatchie Yards. Allen Lowe was struck by a train. He was the father of two children. Full story: The...
March 13, 2019 | 2-man Crews, Accident, Headlines
(Source: The Guardian, March 11, 2019) LONDON — Maintenance workers accidentally applied brakes to the wrong train last year before a BHP train laden with iron ore travelled for 91 kilometers without a driver in Western Australia and had to be deliberately derailed....
March 7, 2019 | Accident, Canada, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, March 6, 2019) OTTAWA — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the number of railway accidents increased by seven per cent last year including those involving dangerous goods, but there were fewer fatalities. There were 1,170...
February 13, 2019 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph, February 12, 2019) TYLER, Texas — Athens police have released a report on the Jan. 25 fatal crash involving a school bus and a train that killed one middle school student and left the bus driver and another student injured. Full...
January 8, 2019 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Television station KVAL, January 7, 2019) CORVALLIS, Ore. — A commercial motor vehicle struck a pedestrian working on the railroad tracks near Highway 34 between Corvallis and Interstate 5 on Monday. Oregon State Police said the worker was taken to the...
December 19, 2018 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, December 18, 2018) CHICAGO — When Chicago police officers are on Metra’s right-of-way, whether responding to a call about a suicidal subject or an accident or pursuing criminal suspects, there’s a practice that’s generally followed,...
