Lawmakers, Unions Oppose Railroad Plan to Automate Track Safety Inspections August 26, 2025 A U.S. railroad industry plan to rely more heavily on technology instead of humans to conduct routine track safety inspections...
Trainee’s Death Seen as Part of Pattern of Lapses in Railroad Safety July 18, 2025 Federal investigators have reported that the 2023 death of a CSX Transportation train conductor trainee in Baltimore was caused by...
Railway Worker’s Death in Ohio Prompts Concerns Over Remote Control Trains August 30, 2024 By Josh Funk The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year...
Freight Train Runs Off Tracks, Smashes Into Residential Garage in Niagara Falls July 25, 2024 NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A freight locomotive ran off the end of its track and smashed into the side...
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...
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...
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...
Buttigieg Scolds Railroads for Not Doing More to Improve Safety Since Ohio Derailment March 15, 2024 Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated his concerns about railroad safety and scolded the industry for not doing more to...
Three Trains in Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania; No Injuries Reported March 4, 2024 Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no...