BNSF Signs Anonymous Federal Safety Hotline for Workers May 1, 2024 By Josh Funk OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF will become the second major freight railroad to allow some of its employees to report...
Multiple Tornadoes Hit Nebraska and Iowa, Leaving Trails of Damage April 28, 2024 By Josh Funk, Margery A. Beck and Heather Hollingsworth OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures...
Freight Railroads Ask Courts to Throw Out Rule Requiring Two-Person Crews on Trains April 17, 2024 By Josh Funk Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in...
Lawyers Want Ohio Residents to Wait for Details of $600M Derailment Settlement April 12, 2024 By Josh Funk The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want...
Freight Railroads Must Keep 2-Person Crews Under New Federal Rule April 4, 2024 By Josh Funk Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized...
Automated Braking Would Not Have Prevented Pennsylvania Train Crash March 28, 2024 By Josh Funk The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system...
Norfolk Southern Ordered to Solely Pay for Ohio Train Derailment Cleanup March 11, 2024 By Josh Funk Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio,...
NTSB to Release Cause of East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment in June Hearing February 12, 2024 By Josh Funk Federal investigators say they will determine the cause of last year’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio at a...
Railroads Say They’re Making Safety Changes to Reduce Derailments After Ohio Crash February 6, 2024 By Josh Funk OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made...
Norfolk Southern Says Total Costs of East Palestine Derailment Up to $1.1B January 31, 2024 By Josh Funk Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment...