it sat idling on the tracks in South Scranton on Sept. 19, 1977. When it slipped backwards out of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad yard and began an unscheduled trip to Edwardsville at 10:20 p.m. that ...
A bill that would require two-person train crews in New Jersey and limit the length of what are considered “dangerous hazardous” freight trains of tank cars carrying oil or chemicals to 8,500 feet in ...
On the warm summer night, the quiet town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, was shattered by one of Canada’s deadliest rail disasters. A runaway freight train carrying over two million gallons of crude oil ...