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HQ-2018-1279 (Finalized)
Westbound Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) freight train 22QA104 (Train 1) with 3 locomotives and 72 cars (43 loads, 29 empty, 8,631 tons, 10,194 feet in length), derailed 25 cars at Milepost (MP) 765.65 on the Alabama Division’s East End District, near Eden, Alabama, on July 5, 2018, at 3:15 a.m.,...HQ-2018-1255 (Finalized)
On Sunday, March 18, 2018, at 11:14 p.m., EDT, southbound Norfolk Southern (NS) freight train 175T817 (Train 1) passed an absolute stop signal without authority and was struck head-on by northbound NS freight train M74T817 (Train 2). The head-on collision occurred on the NS Lake Division, CNO&...Yard Impact Test of a Tank Car
In 2018, the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Office of Research, Development and Technology conducted a series of impact tests for different car configurations at various coupling speeds to better understand the load environment of tank cars during yard operations, and to identify...Review of Suicide Intervention Training Programs
Nearly one-third of all rail-related fatalities in the U.S. result from an intentional act of suicide. Rail carrier-based strategies to prevent these incidents are not well understood, and empirical evidence of the effectiveness of known strategies is currently very limited. One such strategy is...Review of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incidents 1986 – 2015: Trends and Potential Safety Gaps
Every year in the U.S., hundreds of individuals lose their lives at highway-rail grade crossings and even more are injured or otherwise involved in an incident at a crossing. Today’s crossing incident rates, however, are significantly lower than they were years ago. This report collected and...