Biden vows to continue to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for Ohio derailment
President Biden visited the Ohio village Friday to discuss how the administration is holding the rail operator accountable a year after the derailment.
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President Biden visited the Ohio village Friday to discuss how the administration is holding the rail operator accountable a year after the derailment.
One year after a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, residents' concerns linger.
Several of the cars which collapsed into the river contained hot asphalt and molten sulfur, officials said.
No one aboard the train was hurt, officials said.
None of the hazardous materials aboard the train caught fire, railroad officials said.
Data from the Federal Railroad Administration shows that there an average of three derailments per day in the United States.
No one was injured in the derailment and no hazardous materials were involved, according to the railroad company.
The manager of a train station was reportedly arrested in connection with the crash after the freight and passenger trains collided head-on at high speed.
Officials originally said they believed 3,500 aquatic animals had been killed. With the toll estimated to be more than 12 times that amount, officials say they're unsure how long recovery will take.
The strategy seeks to streamline rail operations by lengthening trains while cutting the workforce.
East Palestine, Ohio, has been dealing with the aftermath of the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train transporting hazardous chemicals two weeks ago.
Vinyl chloride was slowly released from five rail cars into a trough that was then ignited, creating a large plume above the village of East Palestine.
The South Platte River Trail reopened after a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed early Saturday morning.
Several freight train cars derailed in Denver Saturday morning. Burlington Northern Santa Fe confirmed the crash happened at around 6 a.m.
A train hauling mixed cargo including alcohol derailed and caught fire near Rock Springs, Wyoming on Saturday.
The northbound lanes of Highway 85 in the Platteville area of Weld County remained closed for much of Thursday following Wednesday's train-truck collision. Both lanes of the highway reopened Thursday evening.
A freight train hit a semi truck early Wednesday morning in Weld County and nearly 20 train cars derailed from the tracks.
The former RTD train operator blamed for a derailment that severed a woman's leg and injured several other passengers will not be charged with a crime.
Aurora police announced it filed nine charges against an RTD driver accused of causing the R Line train to derail.
A passenger on the R Line was ejected when the train derailed in Aurora on Monday afternoon.
A train went off the rails in Windsor Sunday night, landing within inches of the backyard fences of homes near Windsor Middle School.
More than 100 BNSF train cars derailed near Keenesburg after an accident Thursday evening.
Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday.
The train was part of a new high-speed service that just launched today.
It could take days to clean up a railway pileup in east Boulder.
