December 6, 2013 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, December 5, 2013) TWO HARBORS, Minn. — A Canadian National train filled with iron ore pellets has derailed in northeastern Minnesota, injuring two people. Full story: Star Tribune
December 5, 2013 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Bloomberg News, December 4, 2013) NEW YORK — Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., the bankrupt railroad whose runaway train killed 47 after derailing and burning in Lac-Mégantic, is in the final throes of negotiating a contract with a so-called...
December 2, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, December 2, 2013) BAYARD, N.M. — A Southwestern Railroad freight train derailed and the locomotive plunged into a ravine in southwestern New Mexico, killing all three people aboard, investigators said yesterday. Full story: Columbus...
November 22, 2013 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Reuters, November 21, 2013) NEW YORK — Genesee & Wyoming, the owner of a train carrying oil that derailed in western Alabama earlier this month, said on Thursday that there had been no concern about the state of the tracks bought from another company...
November 19, 2013 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, November 19, 2013) ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Genesee & Wyoming reopened a section of track 10 days after the fiery derailment of a train carrying crude oil in west Alabama, but state environmental officials said Monday they still don’t...
November 11, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: The Tennessean, November 10, 2013) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Across Tennessee and throughout the nation, hundreds of short-line railroads work around the clock to deliver raw materials and finished products on thousands of miles of tracks that, for the most part,...
October 30, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line, Unions
(Source: AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) press release, October 29, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) today endorsed a federal mandate that requires at least a two-person crew on U.S. freight trains....
October 28, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Post-Tribune, October 27, 2013) CHICAGO — Short-distance freight train companies formed during the 1980s are providing industries with new logistical options along with other modes of transportation. Full story: Post-Tribune
October 24, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Portland Press Herald, October 24, 2013) PORTLAND, Maine — The widow of a railroad worker crushed to death in 2012 when two 1,500-pound rolls of newsprint fell out of a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway car has been forced to put her wrongful-death...
October 14, 2013 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Bangor Daily News, October 14, 2013) BANGOR, Maine — In what some experts say could be a conflict of interest, the CEO of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway’s parent company also sits on the board of directors of the railway’s second-largest creditor,...
