September 20, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 20, 2022) Twenty-six cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed Monday morning between the towns of Albers and New Baden, leading to an extensive response from authorities that included a hazardous-materials team as a precautionary...
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 9, 2022 | Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2022) Two Union Pacific train crew members were killed early Thursday when their train crashed into parked freight cars near the Salton Sea, officials said. The freight train had been traveling through a desolate stretch of...
September 7, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 7, 2022) JONESBORO, Ark. — Eleven cars of a Union Pacific train derailed early Tuesday morning, closing two streets in central Jonesboro, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. Full story: Trains Magazine
September 6, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station WOI, September 6, 2022) HAMPTON, Iowa — A Union Pacific train derailed early Monday morning in Hampton, Iowa, impacting approximately 44 train cars and spilling asphalt into a creek. Union Pacific says the spilled asphalt has since been...
August 31, 2022 | Derailment, Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: CNN, August 30, 2022) A train conductor was killed in a train derailment in El Paso, Texas, late Monday night, officials said. Two train cars derailed, damaging a backyard shed, a fence, and a gas meter and leading to the evacuation of about 50 people from...
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 25, 2022 | Canada, CN, Derailment, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Age, August 24, 2022) The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is calling for Transport Canada and the Canadian rail industry to expedite the implementation of automated train control systems and to develop and implement formal crew resource...
August 19, 2022 | Derailment, Headlines, NS
(Source: Gainesville Times, August 18, 2022) GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The Department of Natural Resources’ Environmental Protection Division has ordered Norfolk Southern to remove soybeans from Flat Creek under threat of penalties up to $50,000 per day. A Norfolk...
August 18, 2022 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Amarillo Globe-News, August 18, 2022) Crews were working to clean up the site of a train derailment which took place overnight Wednesday and involved 17 train cars. The BNSF Railway Company derailment happened in Deaf Smith County along Hwy. 60 between Dawn...
