Despite covering transport for a living, I can get as stressed and anxious as the next passenger when caught up in travel ...

CSX wants to create a single, systemwide contract covering conductors represented by the SMART-TD union. The railroad ...

A new lawsuit alleges for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train ...

Freight trains frequently stop and ... The railroad administration does mandate train employees, including drivers and conductors, rest for certain periods of time after a shift.

Two coal freight trains collided in Fatehpur, injuring two crew members. Traffic is affected; investigation points to human ...

It gained notoriety nearly two years ago when a freight train derailed in East Palestine ... There are welders, machinists, conductors, and engineers. Jason Myers, Norfolk Southern’s Director ...

That was up 10% from the previous year. It takes the average freight train about a mile to come to a complete stop once the conductor hits the brakes. That can create a dangerous and deadly ...

mixed passenger and freight train. Early railroads also built rough shanties on flatcars. The familiar cupola was invented around the 1860s, originally as an addition to the conductor's boxcar.

Since being promoted in 2023 from conductor/engineer to trainmaster, Justin Dempsey has improved processes to keep rail ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Union Pacific has implemented engineer scheduling at nearly three quarters of its crew hubs. The agreements, reached between the railroad and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, put ...