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Uncovering the issue with the coil car wheelsets is going to take a little heat off them (no pun intended). https://www.progressiverailroading.com/safety/news/NS-discovers-loose-wheel-on-certain-rail-cars-AAR-issues-safety-advisory--68768 Interestingly, WMATA's 7000 cars have been {mainly} out of s...

To be clear on the first part, from the drone imagery, it seems direct property damage extended as far as roughly 2 car lengths from the tracks. How wide a RoW will the carrier actually own? (Assuming they own it at all. I'm aware of some Ohio trackage that was on ground obtained via a many-decades-...

....from which the property damage is confined to such within the care, custody, and control of the Norfolk Southern Corp, into a Megantic. While this could change, there have been no personal injuries directly attributable to the incident ... I was not aware that NS owns all the property now seen ...

How is a train going to know when to begin decelerating before reaching the end of the platform? Those 3 marker coils provide a level of redundancy. I wasn't suggesting junking the existing system, rather supplanting it. The coil scheme may offer redundancy, but they {and wheel counting} did not of...

Not just Ravanna, also Sandusky and Stubenville...... [update] Also Delaware: <https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/delaware-county/norfolk-southern-derailment-in-delaware-county-frustrates-residents/> It happened on the evening of Jan. 25 near Curve Road, which is not too far from Sunbury Road. As...

My approach is solely for the interval starting when the the lead car is approaching the leading end of the platform; that's where precision starts to be important.

Detectors – Spacing: I note that while the existing has a 'key routes...hazardous" constraint, and they are keeping that in place. Will they agree to NOT carry hazardous stock on all other trackage? Detectors – Shared Trending Analysis This clearly would have prevented the East Palestine disas...

This was cited by NTSB as one of the reasons they are opening an investigation of NS above and beyond the East Palestine wreck.

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Safety commission monitoring Metro’s move toward self-piloting trains https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/03/07/metro-ato-train-operations/ “I hope Metro understands how complicated a return to automatic train operation is going to be,” said Robert Lauby, a commissioner with the Washi...

<https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20230323.aspx> {USG statement; no copyright} NTSB to Open a Special Investigation into Norfolk Southern Railway’s Safety Practices and Culture 3/7/2023 ​​​WASHINGTON (March 7, 2023) — The National Transportation Safety Board announced today a special...

Here's why the CCCRP is important: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/us-rail-workers-east-palestine-ohio-train-crash?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other In leaked audio heard by the Guardian, a manager for one of the US’s largest rail companies can be heard explaining to a former carman that they s...

NPR Morning Edition had a segment on the nitty-gritty of the cleanup
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/11604817 ... te-cleanup

A related query: I heard that during the bureaucratically less-than-smooth merger, some villains got into the combining railcar database, and marked certain rolling stock as returned to UP+SP, when it fact the smaller line kept them. For a year+, they were using the rolling stock, without paying the...

eolesen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:30 pm
It would be cheaper to bring back cabooses.

And I'm saying that unless we know what the average working temperature is for a roller bearing under load at track speed, that differential means little to nothing. How do you know the 38 degree reading was abnormally low and came about from the train having been stopped in 10 degree weather behin...