Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice. The Transportation Department’s Federal Railroad Administration released …
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 …
In the year since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern Inc. train brought national attention to US railroad safety, little has changed. Trains are still rolling through East Palestine, Ohio, at 50 miles per hour — the same speed allowed …
Transportation officials and railroad companies are sounding a warning: Active railroad tracks are a bad backdrop for prom pictures or selfies. With the season for graduations and prom portraits underway, North Carolina’s transportation and public school agencies this month are …
It’s easy to think the railroads are unsafe when there are pictures of burning, derailed cars on the nightly news. But the nation’s railroads are actually safer than ever, government statistics show. Derailments and crossing accidents have steadily declined nationwide …
