July 12, 2022 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Seattle Times, July 10, 2022) SEATTLE, Wash. — As President Biden’s ambitious passenger rail expansion plan faces an early test on the Gulf Coast, Washington train advocates have expressed concern about how it could affect the Pacific Northwest. Full story:...
July 1, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains Magazine, July 1, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amtrak and BNSF Railway have filed suit the company that owns the dump truck involved in Monday’s fatal collision and derailment of the Southwest Chief — and the widow of the truck driver has sued a BNSF...
July 1, 2022 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines, NS
(Source: Railway Age, July 1, 2022) The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) and Norfolk Southern (NS) on June 30 announced the financial closing of a deal that will expand commonwealth-supported Amtrak service from Washington, D.C., to Roanoke and to the New...
June 30, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Railway Age, June 28, 2022) NEW YORK — Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train 4 traveling eastbound from Los Angeles to Chicago on June 27 derailed after striking a dump truck that was obstructing a public grade crossing in Missouri. Four people died as a result of...
June 30, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, NTSB, Railroad Safety
(Source: Television station KSHB, June 29, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than two-and-a-half years, the Chariton County Commission has tried to get concerns about the safety of the Porche Prairie Avenue railroad crossing addressed, but BNSF and the Missouri...
June 30, 2022 | Amtrak, COVID, Headlines
(Source: Main Public Radio, June 29, 2022) So far this month, Downeaster passenger trains are carrying 94% as many riders as in June 2019, before the pandemic. Full story: Main Public Radio
June 29, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, June 28, 2022) MENDON, Mo. — A day after the deadly crash on Monday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said people were taken to 10 hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to serious. By Tuesday afternoon, at least 15 people remained...
June 29, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Television station KMBC, June 28, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Transportation and BNSF Railway on Tuesday revealed conflicting stories regarding the process to bring safety improvements to a train crossing at the site of Monday’s...
June 29, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, PSR
(Source: Fulton Sun, June 29, 2022) One of Missouri’s busiest railroad lines is shut down after an Amtrak train struck a dump truck and derailed Monday afternoon, killing four people. The incident and subsequent investigation has potential to delay supply...
June 29, 2022 | Amtrak, Derailment, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: National Public Radio, June 28, 2022) A passenger on board the Amtrak train that crashed into a truck and derailed in Missouri on Monday, killing four people, has described the accident as “hell on Earth.” Full story:...
