The NTSB has concluded that flooding was the primary cause of a Union Pacific derailment in 2019.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin of Transportation have announced the state will be providing Arntzen Corporation a WisDOT Transportation Economic Assistance (TEA) grant for a rail project.
A CSX train has derailed in Shelby County, Ind., and officials are still trying to clean up the scene.
OmniTrax has a new chief commercial officer.
The process of Ring Road in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming a clear road when it comes to railroad tracks has been a long one.
Under a $124 million development plan, a significant portion of the Ardmore Industrial Airpark will become an international, state-of-the-art multimodal logistics facility.
Ondas Holdings Inc. (Ondas), a developer of proprietary, software-based wireless broadband technology, has acquired American Robotics, Inc.
First came the semiconductor chip shortage, which has been following by the Great Ford Truck Derailment of 2021.
Union Pacific’s beloved steam locomotive No. 4014 is returning to the rails Aug. 5 for a five-week tour that includes public display events in five major cities, along with brief whistle-stops in more than 90 other communities.
For the most part, the employment story at U.S. railroads during the past couple of years has been dismal. The words fear, layoff, furlough, cut, and fire have peppered nearly all news stories on the subject. PSR “adjustments” and Covid have mostly driven the reduction in the workforce.
New video of Tempe derailment may hold clues to the cause of the accident.
Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board has approved a $450,000 grant for Norfolk International Terminals at the Port of Virginia.
Wildfires continue to plague Union Pacific’s lines in several places. Below is a message posted to customers yesterday (July 28, 2021) from Kenny Rocker, EVP, Marketing & Sales.
On Saturday, July24, a Canadian National train hauling 99 cars derailed, putting a locomotive and 24 empty intermodal cars on the ground near Pointe au Baril, Ontario. A washout is considered the most likely cause, and two crew members received minor injuries.
A CSX intermodal train derailed in Indiana yesterday.
More Norfolk Southern mechanical forces have been laid off.
The “blame game” around the recent wildfire at Lytton, B.C. has started.
The wildfire challenges in British Columbia continue to be major headaches for CN and CP, and are having an economic impact due to the resulting backlog of traffic at the Port of Vancouver.
The cause of the wildfire in Lytton, British Columbia is now under investigation.
CP and CN operations must shut down near Lytton for 48 hours.