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28 Freight Rail Workers Tell Us What They Want You to Know About Their Lives
In threatening to disrupt the nation’s economy, freight rail workers are seeking basic dignities every other worker takes for granted.
Amtrak Is Streaming an Empty Railroad on Twitch to Beef With Freight Rail Companies
Amtrak wants to run two round-trip trains a day between Mobile and New Orleans. Freight companies are fighting it. So Amtrak is taking it to Twitch.
‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe
Workers are sounding the alarm that drastic cuts in employees and maintenance in order to increase profits are tempting fate.
Railroad Companies Don't Want to Disclose Where — and When — Their 'Bomb Trains' Are Traveling
The US Federal Railroad Administration will continue to require companies to inform emergency responders about oil-by-rail shipments — But the industry says it's a security risk to disclose the information to the public.
Train Derailment and Fire Forces Evacuation of 5,000 People in Eastern Tennessee
A tanker car containing acrylonitrile, also know as vinyl cyanide, is on fire and spewing toxic fumes that irritate the eyes, skin, and respiratory system.
A Pair of 'Bomb Train' Derailments Highlight Continued Risk of Shipping Oil by Rail
An oil train derailment and explosion has occured nearby Charleston, West Virginia and comes a day after an accident in a remote area of northern Ontario.
When Crumbling Infrastructure Actually Crumbles
A city street collapses onto a railway line in Baltimore.