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AL: When will the train arrive? In Mobile, a vexing question surfaces over Amtrak’s Gulf Coast return
It’s been 43 days since the Mobile City Council gave the “All Aboard!” for a long-stalled and debated Amtrak project ...
Feds should beef up freight train safety or risk derailments, report warns
Freight trains have grown longer over the past two decades, blocking highways, delaying passenger trains and increasing the ...
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Longer Freight Trains Have Created 'New, Heightened Safety Risks'
The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) is urging the rail industry to look into the risks posed by freight trains that have ...
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Long Trains Pose Derailment Danger, Report Says
As freight trains have grown longer ... in February 2023 in which hazardous chemicals leaked and burned for days. That ...
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Report: Railroads, Regulators Must Address Dangers of Long Trains
By 2021, when the report was commissioned, some trains had grown to nearly 14,000 feet, or more than 2 1/2 miles long.
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Report shows link between manifest train length and derailments caused by train makeup and handling issues
The 105-page report on the impacts of freight trains longer than 7,500 feet recommends several steps that the Federal ...
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Researchers press Congress, regulators to address danger of long trains
The Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year was as long as 31 football fields.