East Palestine derailment News

Railroads Say They’re Making Safety Changes to Reduce Derailments After Ohio Crash

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statistics show, and reforms have stalled in Congress. A few key measures in the latest Federal Railroad …

Norfolk Southern Says Total Costs of East Palestine Derailment Up to $1.1B

Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, but the railroad did deliver 3% more shipments during the quarter and even without the costs related …

Biden Administration Launches Formal Evaluation of Vinyl Chloride Risks After Ohio Train Derailment

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern …

Shipping Container Explosion in Nebraska Railyard Raises Questions About Loading Procedures for Hazardous Materials

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a shipping container filled with …

Derailment Costs Grow for Norfolk Southern but Railroad’s Trains Moving More Smoothly

Norfolk Southern’s costs related to the East Palestine derailment have grown to reach nearly $1 billion, but the railroad`s service is improving and its insurance companies have started to pay their share of the cost of the crash in eastern …