September 11, 2024 | News, Remote Control, Top News
In an August 28 national news story, the Associated Press reported on a simple solution to improving the safety of remote control train operations: two-person train crews. The article examines the NTSB’s findings in a 2023 remote control fatality at Wallbridge Yard in...
August 29, 2024 | 2-man Crews, CSX, Fatality, Headlines, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
(Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2024) The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews. But that idea won’t be...
July 12, 2024 | News, Remote Control, Top News, UP
Just days after an explosive New York Times investigative report exposed the dangers of remote control technology, the Union Pacific launched a wide-ranging initiative to implement remote control locomotives (RCLs) in Las Vegas. Brother Matt Parker, Chairman of the...
June 11, 2024 | FRA, News, Remote Control
From left: BLET President Eddie Hall, FRA Administrator Amit Bose, First VP Mark Wallace and National S-T David Estes ____________________ FRA Administrator Amit Bose revealed during his speech at the BLET Western Regional Meeting in Kansas City that the FRA will soon...
June 2, 2024 | News, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
In his remarks to The New York Times, BLET First Vice President Mark Wallace was highly critical of the Union Pacific Railroad regarding remote control train operations. “We have seen an aggressive approach by Union Pacific to take remote controls outside the...
June 1, 2024 | News, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
The BLET questions the safety of remote control train operations and demands safety reforms in a sweeping investigative report published by the New York Times on May 27 (via Yahoo, no subscription necessary). This major news story with national implications came about...
February 23, 2024 | News, Remote Control
Last week, on February 16, a woman was struck and killed by a remote controlled locomotive (RCL) in CSX Transportation’s Frontier Yard in Buffalo, New York. This is at least the second time in the past year that a CSX RCL has been involved with hitting a local...
October 13, 2023 | CSX, Fatality, Headlines, Remote Control
(Source: Associated Press, October 6, 2023) Some railroad unions want more scrutiny of the safety of remote control operations major railroads have used for years in and around railyards without significant problems. Remote control helps limit costs by using less...
September 22, 2023 | News, Remote Control
The death of a CSX carman, Fred Anderson, 56, who was struck and killed by a remote controlled train on September 17 in Wallbridge Yard, near Toledo, has renewed calls for stricter rules on the use of remote operations. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and...
June 19, 2023 | BNSF, Fatality, Headlines, NTSB, Remote Control
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 16, 2023) Slack action was the probable cause of the Feb. 9, 2022, death of a BNSF Railway remote control operator helper who fell from the front platform of his locomotive in Denver, the National Transportation Safety Board said today....
