May 22, 2023 | Headlines, PSR, Railroad Security, Shippers, UP
(Source: Cowboy State Daily, May 18, 2023) A railcar carrying 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in explosives at Wyoming coal mines, left Cheyenne for California on April 12. Two weeks later, the chemical was discovered missing from the railcar and no...
May 11, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train, Railroad Security
(Source: The News Tribune, May 10, 2023) The defendant was charged in Pierce County Superior Court with malicious injury to railroad property, a felony. The incident caused one BNSF Railway train car to derail. The car stayed upright, and there was no oil spill. Full...
April 6, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Star Tribune, March 29, 2023) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A 41-year-old Sauk Rapids man will serve 18 months in prison for climbing onto a train and assaulting the locomotive engineer with a knife last fall. The engineer told police a man jumped on the train,...
April 6, 2023 | CSX, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Greenville News, April 1, 2023) According to a call to police from a CSX conductor, a suspect described as an “armed gunman” was seen standing on the tracks near the train. It appears to the caller that this was an attempt to get the train to stop and...
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....
February 16, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Railroad Security, Short Line
(Source: Railway Age, February 14, 2023) The Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) “believe regulation is not required, particularly considering the extensive efforts of the industry to mitigate...
January 17, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Security, UP
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, January 13, 2023) A man from Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison for calling in threats to Union Pacific’s headquarters and other locations in Omaha in April 2021. He first called Union Pacific and said a...
January 11, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train, Railroad Security
(Source: Cascadia Daily News, January 10, 2023) The federal case against a Bellingham woman responsible for placing shunts along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad in November 2020 has officially closed, ending the two-year saga that brought questions of...
January 5, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Bleeping Computer, January 3, 2023) U.S. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal and sensitive information. In an announcement published at the end of 2022, Wabtec says hackers breached their network...
December 28, 2022 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, December 22, 2022) FreightWaves recently chatted with Miki Shifman, co-founder and chief technology officer for Cylus, a global rail cybersecurity firm headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Shifman discusses current cyberthreats facing freight and...
