The engineer and conductor crewing a Canadian National Railway (CNR) freight train suffered injuries requiring hospital treatment in a collision with another train in Slinger, Wisconsin (WI). The crash occurred on July 21, 2014. According to a detailed report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a Wisconsin & Southern Railroad train was using a CNR…
A Norfolk Southern engineer suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries when the freight train he was crewing near Laurel, Mississippi (MS), derailed early in the morning of June 25, 2014. The cause for several of the rail cars jumping the tracks near a crossing with Highway 13 could not be immediately determined. The railroad worker…
An investigative report conducted by CBC News revealed that CN Rail, a major Canadian railroad operator, has routinely underreported train derailments and misrepresented other data concerning its operations across the U.S. and Canada. The investigation into CN Rail began after a former American employee filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming that CN covered…
The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Rail Division recently hosted a rail safety summit in Chapel Hill. Attended by over one hundred law enforcement officers, public safety advocates and government officials, the goal of the summit was to try to come up with solutions to decrease the number of railroad accidents, particularly railroad crossing accidents,…
What Happened An Amtrak train struck and killed an 18-year-old high school student on March 27, 2013 in Thomasville, North Carolina (NC). The accident took place near East Main and Cates streets. According to the Amtrak engineer, he saw a pedestrian walking south on the southbound tracks, blasted the train’s horns multiple times but the…