September 22, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Television station KMSP, September 21, 2022) A man is facing felony charges for allegedly attacking a train engineer with a knife, causing the victim to flee by jumping from a moving locomotive Tuesday near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Full story:...
September 22, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 22, 2022) BNSF Railway has asked a federal court to rule that those who have sued over the June derailment of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief must settle matters through arbitration rather than lawsuits, and asked that state suits be...
September 19, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, Hi-Viz
(Source: Washington Post, September 17, 2022) Aaron Hiles, a locomotive engineer, told his wife he “felt different,” though he couldn’t say exactly how. He made an appointment to see a doctor, his family said. But then his employer, BNSF, one of the largest freight...
September 19, 2022 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 16, 2022) The failure of the pilot and caption of a tow vessel to correctly identify a caution area on a river chart was the probable cause of a November 2021 collision between the towing vessel Baxter Southern and a BNSF coal train...
September 13, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, National Negotiations 2019
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 13, 2022) BNSF Railway will stop accepting temperature-controlled intermodal traffic as of 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, as it prepares for a possible work stoppage, the railroad said in a notice to customers on Monday night....
September 6, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, September 6, 2022) A civil rights lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can go forward on a female train conductor’s claims she faced a barrage of sexual harassment on a near daily basis while working at BNSF...
September 2, 2022 | BNSF, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, September 2 — Ballots are being mailed on September 9 to eligible members regarding BLET’s tentative BNSF-Montana Rail Link (MRL) implementing agreement and Oregon Short Line Protective Agreement, BLET National President Dennis R. Pierce announced...
August 31, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 31, 2022) Earlier this month, Trains drove alongside BNSF Railway’s Southern Transcon from Barstow, Calif., to Belen, N.M., to see how North America’s busiest freight railroad and intermodal corridor is faring amid the crew shortages...
August 25, 2022 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, PSR
(Source: The News Tribune, August 24, 2022) For the third time in a year, a freight train passing near the Port of Tacoma derailed, knocking down power lines and blocking traffic in the surrounding area Wednesday afternoon. Multiple cars of the train, operated by BNSF...
August 24, 2022 | BNSF, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Freight Waves, August 23, 2022) A number of chemical shippers still face significant rail service disruptions despite freight railroads’ efforts to improve, according to recent statements from the American Chemistry Council (ACC). Full story: Freight...
