December 13, 2002 | News, Remote Control
CLEVELAND, December 12 — The city of Shreveport, La., became the third city in the United States to adopt legislation banning the use of remote control locomotives after a resolution passed by its City Council became effective on November 26. The Shreveport City...
December 2, 2002 | Accident, Headlines, Remote Control
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. — A 47-year-old Hobart man was killed Friday morning in an apparent industrial accident at Bethlehem Steel, The (Muncie, Ind.) Times reported. Randal E. Moehl, a 29-year employee of the company, was pronounced dead at the scene after his body...
November 13, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, Remote Control
GREENUP, Ky. — The Greenup County Fiscal Court adopted a resolution Tuesday asking CSX Transportation to stop operating its recently assigned remote-controlled locomotives, the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch reported. “Railroad equipment is known to...
November 1, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
CUMBERLAND — Approximately 400 gallons of a liquid fuel product spilled when three railroad cars derailed early Friday near the CSX car shop near Offutt Street, reports the Cumberland Times-News. There were no injuries and no fire when the incident occurred shortly...
November 1, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
SAGINAW, Mich. — Railroad engineers say remote control technology that CSX Transportation is introducing to move and couple cars in rail yards — including one in Saginaw — threatens the safety of employees and the public, although CSX officials cite...
November 1, 2002 | Accident, Headlines, Remote Control
LINCOLN, Neb. — Two train cars derailed Thursday when a remote-controlled locomotive stopped too late and hit an empty outbound cargo train leaving Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s west Lincoln rail-switching yard, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. BNSF...
October 31, 2002 | CSX, Headlines, Remote Control
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — David Fry manned the controls of a CSX switch engine, sending a tanker car coasting down a track at the South Charleston assembly yard, the Charleston Gazette reported. The maneuver, known as car-kicking, has to be done with a precise...
October 25, 2002 | Headlines, Remote Control
BATON ROUGE, La. — Train cars in the Foss Street train yard near Memorial stadium are run by remote control. And in the past seven months, there have been two derailments, causing concern for local residents, according to television station WBRZ in Louisiana....
October 23, 2002 | BNSF, Headlines, Remote Control
MINOT, N.D. — Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway will soon be using remote-controlled locomotives for its switching operations east of Minot at Gavin Yard, the Minot Daily News reported. BNSF says the remote-controlled trains will improve safety and...
October 23, 2002 | BNSF, Headlines, Remote Control
MINOT, N.D. — Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway will soon be using remote-controlled locomotives for its switching operations east of Minot at Gavin Yard, the Minot Daily News reported. BNSF says the remote-controlled trains will improve safety and...
