The Latest Breaking News from FRA

Minister Khandre vows to protect tribals' rights under FRA; to hold State-level meeting to resolve confusion over revenue & forest land boundaries; to consider settlement of land rights claims of those tilling encroached govt/forest land before 1980; to install rail track barricade in areas with high human-elephant conflict; to protect…

The union that represents locomotive engineers says a coal train derailment in Virginia is renewing questions about Norfolk Southern's safety practices

Federal regulators are warning railroads that the long trains they favor can cause all kinds of problems and contribute to derailments, so they want the railroads to ensure their training and operating procedures account for that

More than six months before February’s toxic train derailment, a union representing Norfolk Southern Corp. employees in Ohio warned federal regulators that the railroad repeatedly disregarded its own safety rules for screening trains.

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Federal regulators are urging freight railroads to reexamine the way they use and maintain the detectors along the tracks that are supposed to spot overheating bearings in the wake of the fiery Ohio derailment and several other recent crashes where faulty bearings are suspected to be the cause

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday pledged to hold American freight railroads to stricter standards in the wake of a train disaster in Ohio last month and Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s response.

Norfolk Southern, the company behind the Ohio train crash, and other rail firms spent millions on marketing and lobbying

Trains carry hazardous chemicals every day. They're also dangerously unregulated.