Man arrested after surfing naked on top of moving locomotive

A man was arrested for surfing naked on top of a moving locomotive on Thursday, according to a social media post from the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office.

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Big Boy locomotive: More than 100 people treated for heat-related incident at Reading Railroad station

A mass casualty incident occurred during a public event featuring the Big Boy steam locomotive in Muhlenberg Township, prompting a large-scale emergency response.

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‘It was the apocalypse’: Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next?

We speak with a panel of survivors of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in Canada—one of the deadliest in North American history—and the 2023 East Palestine train derailment and chemical disaster in...

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Interview: A Common Sense Vision for the Future of Passenger Rail and Why the BUILD America 250 Act Falls Short (w/ Rail Passengers Association President Jim Mathews)

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Korail to invest $US 3.3bn in new high-speed fleet

Korail plans to order 49 EMU-320 high-speed trains worth Won 5 trillion ($US 3.3bn) and a prototype EMU-370 train.

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Today in History: Lac-Mégantic and Piper Alpha Disasters - Confined Space

Reprint from 2018 July 6 has a rather dubious place in the history of workplace and community safety, corporate responsibility and government oversight. Lac Mégantic, July 6, 2013 Five years ago today...

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CPKC, BNSF respond strongly to UP claim they have pressured customers over merger - Trains

A Union Pacific executive said this week in a message to shippers that customers have felt a “real backlash” from BNSF Railway and CPKC after indicating support for the UP-Norfolk Southern merger. BNSF and CPKC issued strong responses today (July 10). Kenny Rocker, UP executive vice president, marketing and sales, said in the message on [...]Read More...

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Rail News - UP-NS submit first portion of supplemental information to STB. For Railroad Career Professionals

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Rail News - Watco Dispatch Center employees ratify first BLET contract. For Railroad Career Professionals

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Is it time to renationalize the CN rail network in Canada? | CCPA

It has been 30 years since Canadian National was privatized, and Wall Street continues to profit at Canada’s expense

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Rail News - Carriers, unions close out 2025 national bargaining round. For Railroad Career Professionals

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Rail News - Canada TSB issues annual safety recommendation assessment. For Railroad Career Professionals

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Soldiers train on Intramotev TugVolt autonomous railcar to move military cargo - Trains

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. — Intramotev, the technology company building autonomous railcars, participated in a technology assessment at Operation Sentinel Justice, the largest training exercise in the history of the U.S. Army Reserve. The assessment took place from June 9 through June 17 at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center. Soldiers operated Intramotev’s TugVolt autonomous railcar [...]Read More...

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Toxic Avengers: America’s poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die

From AI data centers to toxic industrial disasters, the USA has become a deregulated, corporate captured “sacrifice zone.” Now, a history-changing coalition of chemically impacted communities, workers...

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Environmental groups sue to stop BNSF’s Barstow project - Trains

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A coalition of environmental groups has filed suit to overturn the City of Barstow’s approval of BNSF’s Barstow International Gateway, citing what they say are deficiencies in the city’s environmental assessment that understate the project’s impact. “It’s unconscionable that a city in this day and age would allow a giant industrial [...]Read More...

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Canadian government updates rules for training and certification of rail workers - Trains

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government this week published new regulations regarding training and certification for railway employees, which will take effect in two years and replace regulations in force since 1987. The new Railway Personnel Training and Qualifications Regulations were published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, and are part of the Railway Safety [...]Read More...

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NTSB releases initial report on NS derailment, fire in Tennessee - Trains

WASHINGTON — Ten tank cars released part of their loads of alcohol, leading to a fire that burned for three days, in the June 11 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train near Wartburg, Tenn., the National Transportation Safety Board says in its preliminary report on the incident. No injuries were reported in the incident that [...]Read More...

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Rising intermodal volume slows big four U.S. rail systems

Rising fuel and trucking costs have caused a rail volume surge, slowing down major U.S. railroads.

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Unions ask STB to force UP-NS to make public detailed information on merger’s impact on jobs - Trains

WASHINGTON — A coalition of labor unions has asked the Surface Transportation Board to make public information about the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger’s impact on workers, saying that it does not involve commercially sensitive information that would justify its designation as “highly confidential” by the railroads. While a summary of the impacts was included in [...]Read More...

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Canadian regulators find for striking union in complaint against CPKC - Trains

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ruled that CPKC’s use of a contractor during a strike by signal workers violates anti-replacement worker laws, its first ruling on a series of complaints filed by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council No. 11. The decision prohibits the railroad from using contractor PNR Railworks [...]Read More...

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Need for custom catenary supports slows South Shore recovery from derailment - Trains

HAMMOND, Ind. — The South Shore Line’s effort to fully restore service following a coal train derailment last week hinges on replacing custom catenary support structures that were damaged in the June 24 incident. In a Facebook post on Thursday, June 30, the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District says that because the 13-car freight train [...]Read More...

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Workers at Ohio short line vote to join BLET - Trains

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Workers at OmniTRAX short line Northern Ohio & Western Railway have voted to join the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the union has announced. The National Mediation Board certified the election on June 16. The union says it is the 16th instance of a short line voting to join the BLET [...]Read More...

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New study suggests health damage from exposure to Ohio toxic train spill

Research finds immune systems still ‘responding to toxic chemical exposures’ related to East Palestine derailment

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An Open Letter to the Surface Transportation Board:

The Question Beneath the UP-NS Merger In re Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, STB Finance Docket No. 36873 Members of the Surface Transportation Board, Before deciding whethe...

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