Norfolk Southern announced plans on Monday to improve the use of detectors placed along railroad tracks to spot overheating bearings and other problems in response to a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border a month ago. The announcement came the same day...
Locomotive Engineers Are Onboard For The Bipartisan Rail Safety Act of 2023 INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, March 3 — A bipartisan bill introduced on March 1 by three Republican and three Democratic senators is designed to toughen safety standards on America’s railroads. “Right...
Railroads offer paid sick days, schedule changes to retain employees When railroad employees get sick, they’re usually faced with a tough choice: use one of their limited personal days, head into work anyway or, if neither of those is an option, risk their job...
Our nation relies on the railroad to keep our economy running, and we should be providing rail workers with the benefits to reflect that. In my conversation with @AAR_FreightRail CEO Ian Jeffries, I emphasized that the rail industry must improve employee benefits....
STB rejects UP’s request for confidentiality in embargo case The Surface Transportation Board has rejected Union Pacific Railroad’s request to keep certain commercial information confidential in a case involving the Class I’s use of traffic-control...
