People who live near East Palestine, Ohio, can now get $25,000 apiece for any injuries they sustained after last year’s Norfolk Southern freight train derailment on top of whatever money they get for property damage as part of a $600 million class-action settlement. The lawyers who negotiated the deal have increased the estimated injury payment […]
More than a year after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and exploded in East Palestine, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) returned to the eastern Ohio village to discuss its investigation into the disaster and offer recommendations to prevent future calamities. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy opened the June 25 hearing by stating: […]
Norfolk Southern has agreed to an estimated $310 million settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department more than a year after the railway company’s trains crashed, exploded, and spilled toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio last year. If the settlement is approved by a U.S. District Court judge, Norfolk Southern will pay […]
A freight train carrying gasoline and odorless propane derailed Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line and caught fire, leading to the closure of an interstate highway, according to authorities. The Arizona Department of Transportation said in an update on X, formerly Twitter, that the train derailment near Mexico has led to the closure of […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Boeing whistleblower’s claims that the company dismissed safety and quality concerns in the production of the planemaker’s 787 and 777 jets, an agency spokesperson said on Tuesday. U.S. small-business confidence slipped to the lowest level in more than 11 years in March amid rising concerns about inflation, […]
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank and at least one partially in the river. Officials in Northampton County said the derailment was reported at about […]
Federal investigators say they will determine the cause of last year’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio at a hearing in East Palestine this June. The National Transportation Safety Board announced Wednesday that it will hold the hearing at East Palestine High School on June 25 to approve the findings of its investigation. That […]
DENVER—An Amtrak train crashed into a truck carrying milk at a northeastern Colorado rail crossing, badly injuring the engineer and sending three passengers to a hospital for treatment, authorities said. The truck driver, a 31-year-old man from Fort Wainright, Alaska, drove through the crossing, which has a stop sign, and did not yield to the […]
NEW YORK—A train derailed on an elevated New York City subway track Wednesday, causing no injuries but leaving passengers stuck in carriages on the rail line that runs above a Coney Island street until they could be evacuated about an hour later. The incident comes almost a week after a collision and derailment in Manhattan […]
A group of Kentucky residents on Wednesday sued CSX, saying the railroad operator could have prevented a train derailment that spilled molten sulfur in remote eastern Kentucky on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday. The proposed class action lawsuit filed in Kentucky federal court claimed CSX’s negligence, recklessness and failure to follow federal train regulations […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A failed wheel bearing on a train car caused a derailment that sparked a chemical fire and forced residents of a small town in Kentucky out of their homes for just over a day, including most of Thanksgiving, according to CSX railroad. The accident happened Wednesday afternoon just north of Livingston. A spokesman for […]
LIVINGSTON, Ky.—Kentucky officials and crews with rail operator CSX were working Friday to remove train cars and spilled material at the site of a derailment that sparked a chemical fire earlier in the week and prompted home evacuations in a nearby small town. State officials said Friday they were monitoring the air for traces of […]
PUEBLO, Colo.—A train derailment and bridge collapse Sunday spewed coal and mangled train cars across a highway near Pueblo, Colorado, trapping a semi-truck driver beneath the wreckage, the Colorado State Patrol said. Efforts were underway to rescue the truck driver, state patrol spokesperson Gary Cutler said, although police did not immediately know the driver’s condition […]
PATNA, India—A passenger train derailed in eastern India late Wednesday, killing four passengers and injuring dozens, a government official said on Thursday. All 21 coaches of the North-East Express train, on its way to Assam state from New Delhi, derailed near Raghunathpur railroad station in Buxar district of Bihar state, Magistrate Anshul Agarwal said. Two […]
President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies to continue holding Norfolk Southern accountable for its February derailment in eastern Ohio and appoint a FEMA official to oversee East Palestine’s recovery, but he still stopped short of declaring a disaster. Biden issued the executive order Wednesday evening. Part of the order essentially directed the environmental, health and […]
NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D.—No injuries or hazardous spills have been reported in a train derailment in a southeastern South Dakota town that also saw a rail bridge partially collapse. The derailment happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday in North Sioux City, the Union County Emergency Management office said in social media posts. Nineteen cars derailed […]
MULTAN, Pakistan—Ten cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others, officials said. Some of the derailed cars on the Hazara Express train overturned in the crash near the town of Nawabshah, senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho said. The train was going from […]
NEW YORK—Two people were seriously injured and 11 others hurt when a commuter train derailed in New York City on Thursday, officials said. About 100 riders were on the Long Island Rail Road train when it derailed shortly after 11 a.m. east of the Jamaica station in Queens, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson said. Fire […]
HELENA, Mont.—Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company’s inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people and injured 49 others in 2021, federal investigators said Thursday in a final report. The severity of the injuries were made worse by the Amtrak train’s lack […]
The recent train derailment in Pennsylvania highlights the need for rail infrastructure improvement across the United States. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is meant to improve freight railways and other sectors of America’s infrastructure. To learn more about how, I spoke with Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the US Hispanic Business Council and […]
