May 13, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, May 13, 2016) SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Railroad safety nonprofit Operation Lifesaver (OL, www.oli.org) presented national safety awards highlighting individual achievements in preventing deaths and injuries around tracks and...
April 22, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver, UP
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, April 21, 2016. Editor’s note: Union Pacific locomotive engineer Ed Abboud is a member of BLET Division 183 in Omaha, Neb.) FREMONT, Neb. — As the Union Pacific locomotive rolled across the Downing Street crossing Wednesday afternoon...
April 11, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Lancaster Online, April 10, 2016) LANCASTER, Pa. — An average of 28 people die in train-related incidents in Pennsylvania each year, but very few of them are rail workers or passengers. Most victims are pedestrian “trespassers” on the tracks, or motorists at...
March 22, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Columbus Dispatch, March 21, 2016) COLUMBUS, Ohio — The number of people killed in Ohio from trains striking vehicles has tripled, from four in Ohio in 2014 to 12 last year, according to Ohio Operation Lifesaver, a nonprofit rail-safety education...
March 16, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, March 15, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vehicle-train collisions and deaths at highway-rail grade crossings fell in 2015, along with injuries to pedestrians trespassing on train tracks, Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) President...
February 1, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver opinion column by Wende Corcoran, January 29, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier this month, state member program leaders who are new to their positions in the past year came to Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) headquarters in Alexandria,...
January 21, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, January 19, 2016) NEW YORK — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has introduced a jobs bill that would invest $1.4 billion in infrastructure projects statewide, creating an estimated 39,900 Minnesota jobs. Full story: Railway Track...
January 6, 2016 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, January 5, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bonnie Murphy, a former commuter rail executive and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) official, will become President and CEO of Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) in late January, OLI...
January 5, 2016 | BNSF, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: KOMO News, January 4, 2016) SEATTLE, Wash. — Safety campaigns are being expanded in Washington state to try to keep more people away from train tracks. The efforts come after a record number of pedestrians were killed by trains across the state in 2015....
November 24, 2015 | Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: Operation Lifesaver press release, November 20, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Operation Lifesaver, Inc. Board of Directors has elected members and officers for the two-year term that begins January 1, 2016. William “Bill” Barringer, railroad consultant and...
