March 23, 2023 | FRA, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, March 22, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on March 22 released a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) to expand occupational noise exposure regulations and require railroads to provide locomotive crews with...
March 10, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 8, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration today proposed a rule that would require railroads to provide emergency breathing apparatus for locomotive crews who are operating trains carrying hazardous materials that would pose an...
March 9, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, PSR
(Source: Yahoo Finance, March 8, 2023) Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Vice President and National Legislative Representative Vince Verna joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the Ohio train derailments, railroad regulation, and the outlook for...
March 9, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, PSR
Federal regulators are looking into a previously unreported incident involving Norfolk Southern potentially mishandling a conductor’s concern on a train carrying hazardous material just weeks after a similar defect precipitated the derailment in East Palestine,...
March 8, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Fatality, FRA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, March 7, 2023 Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the nation’s biggest railroads following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month and several other accidents involving Norfolk...
March 8, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, March 7, 2023) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced its plan to conduct a 60-day supplemental safety assessment of Norfolk Southern Railway following multiple safety...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, SMART-TD
(Source: Bloomberg News, March 7, 2023) More than six months before February’s toxic train derailment, a union representing Norfolk Southern Corp. employees in Ohio warned federal regulators that the railroad repeatedly disregarded its own safety rules for screening...
March 8, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WKRC, March 7, 2023) Norfolk Southern’s accident rate has climbed steadily nationally and in Ohio in the last 10 years, according to a Local 12 Investigates analysis of federal rail safety data. Full story:...
March 7, 2023 | DOT, FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, March 4, 2023) Just as the industry consists of not just the railroads but numerous stakeholders such as the equipment manufacturers, shippers and unions, there are also several federal-level agencies involved in ensuring freight rail safety....
March 6, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Derailment, East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines
(Source: Buffalo News, March 5, 2023) James P. Louis, a union officer for Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said Saturday he’s been working in the railroad industry for 40 years and has witnessed the cutbacks firsthand. Full story: Buffalo...
