February 6, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, February 6, 2023) EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in northeastern Ohio urgently warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so Sunday night, saying...
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...
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 21, 2022 | Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Television station KFOX14/CBS4, September 20, 2022) EL PASO, Texas — A preliminary report has been issued regarding the deadly train derailment in the Lower Valley in August. On August 29 around 9:14 p.m. the conductor of a Union Pacific Railroad train,...
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...
August 25, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 24, 2022) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating a collision that occurred July 15 between an Amtrak train and a Union Pacific Railroad roadway maintenance machine in Oakland, California. Full story:...
August 11, 2022 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, August 11, 2022) Video from a locomotive camera shows that the operator of a Union Pacific maintenance-of-way vehicle turned in front of an Amtrak train and fouled the track just prior to a July collision in Oakland, according to the National...
July 22, 2022 | Amtrak, BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CNN, July 21, 2022) The deadly collision last month between an Amtrak train with 282 people on board and a fully loaded dump truck in Missouri caused $4 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. An NTSB preliminary...
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...
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...
