March 13, 2017
A fiery train derailment in rural Iowa that burned for more than 36 hours has at least one group suggesting that the industry should move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers. A Union Pacific train hauling 100 tankers full of …
February 3, 2014
The Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. reorganization proposal filed by families of the 47 people who died when one of the railroad’s cars derailed and exploded is “not a serious plan,” according to Robert J. Keach, the Chapter 11 …
March 20, 2012
The second twister from a storm cell derailed or knocked over 31 railroad cars at the mammoth Bailey rail yard on the west side of North Platte, Neb. No deaths were reported from the storms that struck Sunday night near …