Several railroads are starting a new public relations campaign to highlight the grave dangers of walking near railroad tracks. There was a spike in rail deaths in 2013, particularly in central Virginia. The accidents there have underscored the catastrophic power of trains that cross paths with both pedestrians and drivers. In mid 2013, railroads declared 2012 the…
First responder officials told a US Senate hearing this week that large cities and small towns are not ready for a derailment disaster on the scale of the one that happened last year in Quebec. In that incident, part of the town was destroyed and 47 people died. This hearing was the second on Capitol…
A railroad employee who hurt his back when he fell at a Taylor, Pennsylvania (PA) rail yard in 2010 won more than $280,000 in federal court. Jeff McAndrew, 44, from Clifford, PA filed a lawsuit against Delaware and Hudson Railway in 2011. He alleged that the railroad company did not properly clear a railroad crossing of…
Famous investor Warren Buffet said this week that it is clear that railroad tank cars that carry crude oil need updating. Oil from some areas has the potential to be more dangerous than previously thought, both to people and the environment during a spill. Buffet appeared this week on CNBC after he released an update in…
How well would you work if you had a camera pointed at you all day long? Probably not very well. Now many hardworking railroad engineers may be forced to do just that. In what feels like an invasion of privacy the federal government is now considering installing inward-facing video cameras in locomotives due to the…