December 21, 2023 | CN, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, Railroad Security, UP
(Source: Pro Publica, December 15, 2023) When questioned by federal officials or faced with an accident, the nation’s powerful freight railroad companies say they are among the safest employers in America and tout their injury records to prove it. But those statistics...
December 11, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, December 11, 2023 A proposed rule to prevent freight rail cars produced by Chinese entities from being used in the U.S. freight rail network is earning praise from the heads of the Rail Security Alliance (RSA) and the Railway Supply Institute...
October 26, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 24, 2023) The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday announced updates to three security directives regulating passenger and freight railroads to protect critical rail operations and facilities. Full story:...
July 6, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, July 1, 2023) If railway police officers investigating an incident encounter evidence that could be damning to a rail company, do they see their primary duty as seeking all the facts or protecting the company’s name? For some families of loved...
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...
