Union Pacific’s $250 billion merger with Norfolk Southern will likely cause delays, consolidation, and higher costs instead ...

Wheaton residents will have to find alternate routes after a freight train struck a vehicle Monday, blocking nearly every ...

Five years ago, the average Union Pacific freight train was 8,000-feet long. Today, it's more than 9,000, with many extending as long as 15,000-feet.

Not Amtrak, not a passenger train. And we now today run these large trains with two people onboard,” said Jones. Two freight train derailments in 2023 put an extra lens of scrutiny on long trains.

In February 2023, 38 cars from a 151-car, 9,300-foot-long freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, leading to the release of hazardous materials that required the evacuation of more than ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the ...

OMAHA, Neb. — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a certain type of derailment, the National Academies of Sciences said.

Freight train length has been a growing topic of discussion, and concerns about the safety risks of running longer trains have captured the attention of policy makers and the public. According to ...

Sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration, the Transportation Research Board convened a 12-member committee “with experience in freight and passenger railroad operations, state rail ...

Hence 2 mile long freight trains and delayed passenger trains. Just 4 freight companies, (bnsf, union pacific, csx, Norfolk southern) control 90% of the market and rails now.