The FRA defines a quiet zone as “a section of a rail line that contains one or more consecutive public crossings at which locomotive horns are not routinely sounded”. In plain English, this simply means that there are certain places where railroad tracks cross public highways or roads. However, as a result of an official…
Two men whose names were not released were killed when a train struck both of them Friday evening at the intersection of 18th Street and North Main Street in Kannapolis, NC. Apparently, the other man was trying to pull the other out of the rail track when they were hit by the train. An Amtrak…
After ignoring the train track’s safety features, a driver in South Carolina drove into the path of a passenger train, killing all four people on board. Hardeeville and state authorities are investigating the deadly train-car accident.
The police in Cary, North Carolina have reported that an Amtrak passenger train struck and killed a man along its railroad tracks near East Chatham and Trinity Roads early last Saturday morning. Evidently the Wake County man whom Cary police describe as in his late 30’s had died at the scene on the tracks. According…
When you hear about mesothelioma, the deadly cancer that is usually caused by asbestos exposure, you usually think about shipyard workers, miners, construction workers, and others who probably were often exposed to the toxic fiber. Yet many do not know that thousands of railroad workers have been exposed to asbestos and have an increased chance…