Category: Transportation
Regulators look at Northwest oil train safety
SEATTLE – Environmental regulators from the Northwest deliberated Wednesday about the dramatic changes in the way oil and other energy products are carried through the region. At a task force meeting of West Coast states, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis of the Washington Department of Ec [...]
Obama nominates former Kan. DOT secretary for STB
President Barack Obama has nominated former Kansas Secretary of Transportation Deb Miller to the Surface Transportation Board, reportedly replacing George Bush-appointee Francis Mulvey. Miller, a Democrat, was the Kansas secretary of transportation from 2003 to 2012, making h [...]
3 BNSF trains in collision near Amarillo, 4 hurt
Four people were injured in a three-train collision about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and Farm-to-Market Road 1912 east of Amarillo, the Potter County Sheriff’s Office said. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway spokesman Joe Faust said a stopp [...]Derailments prompt N.Y. MTA safety review
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has asked six railroad and transportation experts to examine recent safety-related incidents at three of its operating subsidiaries. The panel will study the causes of recent derailments at Metro-North, the Long Isla [...]Metro-North accidents focus of federal hearings
HARTFORD, Conn. – An October hearing will be held to address railroad issues including track inspection and maintenance as well as safety standards for both passengers and workers, federal officials investigating two recent Metro-North Railroad accidents in Connecticut announ [...]
Norfolk Southern Railway sued by EEOC
Company refused to allow employee with disability to return to work after treatment, federal agency charges ATLANTA – A Norfolk, Va.-based railway company unlawfully discriminated against an employee because of his disability, degenerative disc disorder, the U.S. Equal [...]Labor Day photos: Care to share?
Did your local do something special to celebrate Labor Day? Did you hold a picnic or participate in a parade? If so, we would like to see your photographs. If we receive enough of them, we’ll run them in next SMART Transportation Division newspaper. Send your photograph [...]Ga. court: Injured conductor can sue railroad
The case of a Norfolk Southern railroad conductor injured in a Dodge County train accident went all the way to the Georgia State Supreme Court. On Sept. 23, the state’s highest court ruled that William Zeagler could sue the railroad, because he had not been trained prop [...]