About 100 homes remained evacuated Monday as officials worked to clean up the site of a 26-car train derailment near the small community of Lawtell, about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge. State police said crews were working to clear …
Agencies in Columbus, Ohio, are trying to recoup nearly $900,000 spent or lost in the train derailment and explosion that lit up the early morning sky north of downtown and heavily damaged a city bus depot one year ago. Those …
The lead Transportation Safety Board investigator says the rail tankers involved in a derailment and explosions that wiped out the heart of a small town in Quebec have a history of puncturing during accidents. TSB investigator Donald Ross told The …
Metro-North Railroad has hired an outside company to review its track maintenance and inspection programs following last month’s derailment outside of Bridgeport, Conn. The New Haven Register reports the railroad sent a letter to several members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation …
The National Transportation Safety Board says two days before a train derailed in Connecticut last month and injured more than 70 people a track inspection found problems where the derailment occurred. The NTSB said Wednesday the inspection on May 15 …
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 …
The investigation into the cause of a southeast Missouri cargo train crash that injured seven people and destroyed a highway overpass could take up to a year. The accident happened about 2:30 a.m. Saturday near Rockview, Mo., when a Union …
The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an “unusual condition” on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done …
BNSF Railway and ADM have settled a lawsuit filed over injuries suffered by a railroad conductor during a Lincoln, Neb., accident in 2008. Court records say BNSF sued ADM in September 2010 to recover the $405,000 it paid conductor Robert …
Union Pacific has determined the cause of an accident that led to a train derailment in White County, Ark., in March. Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says the derailment was caused by a broken rail. She tells the Daily Citizen …