Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5 p.m. Wednesday in Pecos after …
HOUSTON (AP) – Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor announced …
Union Pacific Railroad will be reimbursing Tempe nearly $482,000 for expenses related to the July 2020 train derailment, according to city officials. They said the reimbursement covers repair and replacement of damaged city property, incident response costs, traffic control, environmental …
The widows of two U.S. Border Patrol agents killed in a train accident near Gila Bend have sued the railroad and the irrigation district that owns the land crossed by the tracks. The lawsuit filed in Pima County Superior Court …
Union Pacific Railroad will pay $1.5 million in fines for environmental damage in Provo and other areas of the Intermountain West. The Daily Herald of Provo reported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the settlement in a news release last …
