Attorney Discusses Railroad Companies Lack of Action with Asbestos
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Ongoing Track Maintenance and Improvements Are Needed to Prevent Derailments
Last week I received two pieces of news about Amtrak from different e-mail newsletters I subscribe to. The first concerned the derailment of a passenger train north of St. Louis, Missouri (MO). The second concerned Amtak’s plans to use federal economic stimulus money and some of its own funds to improve tracks and switches at…
Attorney Discusses Positive Train Control Regulations for Railroads
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Sunken Train Tracks Pose Serious Dangers
Maintaining safe railroad crossings is a primary responsibility for any rail company. My colleague Randy Appleton notes in his latest post to the Norfolk Injuryboard that CSX is not fully meeting this responsibility because it has repeatedly delayed making repairs to a sunken crossing on Rt. 17 in York County, Virginia (VA). When train crossing…
Rail Operators Must Clear Visual Obstructions Around Highway Crossings
How safe can a railroad crossing be when it looks like this? The image, taken in the course of a Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into a fatal crash involving a passenger train and a dump truck, illustrates that the truck drove into the path of the train largely because its driver could not…