January 18, 2023 | Fatality, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Television station WIAT, January 17, 2023) BESSEMER, Ala. — New details have been released regarding a Norfolk Southern employee who died on December 13. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report regarding the incident where the...
January 11, 2023 | Fatality, FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Trains Magazine, January 6, 2023) In the wake of a fatal accident on Norfolk Southern last month, the Federal Railroad Administration has issued a safety bulletin urging railroaders to conduct pre-departure inspections to ensure that no objects are protruding...
December 15, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station KVIA, December 14, 2022) EL PASO, Texas — The family of a deceased conductor who was killed in an on-duty accident is suing Union Pacific Railroad. Mario Navarro was killed on August 29 when a train passing through a construction zone hit a...
December 14, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WBRC, December 13, 2022) BESSEMER, Ala. — One person was killed this morning in a railway accident in Bessemer according to officials. Bessemer police say a train conductor trainee was killed. Bessemer Police and Investigators from Norfolk...
November 8, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station KPRC, November 7, 2022) SPRING, Texas — A railroad worker died at the hospital after an explosion caused by fuel at a railroad track near Old Town Spring Saturday morning, authorities said. Officials with Harris County Fire Marshall’s...
November 4, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMBC, November 3, 2022) CHARITON, Mo. — Attorneys for multiple passengers from an Amtrak train that derailed near Mendon, Missouri, in June want a federal judge to toss out a request by BNSF Railway to force those passengers and their...
October 26, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, October 25, 2022) STONINGTON, Illinois — A man killed last week in a central Illinois train accident has been identified as a worker who had been with a local grain cooperative for nearly a half-century, authorities said. Police said the...
October 18, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Fatality, Headlines
(Source: Television station KMIZ, October 17, 2022) COLUMBIA, Mo. — Amtrak and BNSF are asking judges to move at least three cases over a deadly summer train crash because too few people live in Chariton County. The train derailed after hitting a dump truck at a...
September 30, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Associated Press, September 29, 2022) The collision that killed two Union Pacific employees earlier this month in Southern California happened when the train slammed into 92 empty railcars that had been stored on a side track for nine months, NTSB...
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...
