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Why Long Trains Keep Derailing — ProPublica


A Train Took His Legs. KCS Railway Put the Blame on Him.

Railroad companies have a long history of hiding injuries, as ProPublica recently reported. But in some catastrophes like Cole's, in which ...

ProPublica: "The Real Reason Long Trains Ke…" - Newsie.Social

The Real Reason Long Trains Keep Derailing -- #Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are ...

A year after Ohio derailment, U.S. freight trains remain largely ...

making cuts, but then emphasizing keeping cargo moving, finding ways to limit the amount of times the cargo stops along the journey. It made ...

Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of ...

Fed up with Union Pacific's “failure to maintain tracks to federal standards,” officials at the FRA announced a robust nationwide safety ...

Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But ... - Threads

ProPublica (@propublica). 18 Replies. 601 Likes. Trains are ... please do something about the Long Trains that keep derailing! This ...

ProPublica Report on Stopped Trains Impacting School Routes in ...

He along with other investigative reporters with Gray Television/Investigates TV put together a long piece on the impacts and dangers ...

Dan Schwartz - ProPublica

Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators are doing little to ...

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Freight Trains Score Safety In Stereo

They're very long articles but worth the read. https://www.propublica.org/article/train-derailment-long-trains ... Will it be big enough to keep ...

Keep It Rural: Train Derailment | The Daily Yonder

In fact, train derailments occur about three times a day in the United States and often in rural areas, according to the Federal Railroad ...

Rail Carriers' Cost-Cutting Is Endangering All of Us - Jacobin

Rail carriers are operating longer, heavier freight trains, and with fewer workers than ever. The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, ...

As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains ...

The company will also review its procedures to see whether its trains can give louder warnings before they start moving. (ProPublica reporters ...

Norfolk Southern Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts

In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that ...

Topher Sanders - ProPublica

Time and again, Johnny Taylor's duty to keep the rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer's desire to keep its trains running as fast and as ...

@secretarypete please do something about the Long Trains that ...

Trains are getting longer. Railroads are getting richer. But these “monster trains” are jumping off of tracks across America and regulators ...

Railroad Supervisors Go to Extremes to Hide Worker Injuries

ProPublica previously reported about how, in a quest to maximize profits, railroad companies are pushing managers to keep trains moving at all ...

The Perils of Precision Scheduled Railroading - About

[5] Id. [6] https://www.propublica.org/article/train-derailment-long-trains. [7] Id. [8] ...

Nevada bill targeting train safety gains steam amid national ...

“We've seen an increase in rail accidents and derailments, there is fear amongst the workforce,” Ron Kaminkow, a Reno-based locomotive engineer, ...

Longer and Longer Freight Trains Drive Up the Odds of Derailment

Transporting more humans by rail is an inefficient use of rail capacity that increases use of truck transport which causes a lot of road damage and uses a lot ...

Dead Workers, Severed Limbs Missing from Railroad Safety Data

The engineer and his conductor had been stuck behind a stalled train that had not budged by the end of their shift, and rail company officials ...