The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) on Wednesday urged rail tank car owners and hazmat shippers of flammable liquids to stop using tank cars like some in a Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train ...

Yet more than a decade later, there are still more than 25,000 of these tank cars in use nationwide, including on the Norfolk Southern train that derailed last year in East Palestine, Ohio ...

The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn't justified, the head of the National Transportation ...

In 2022, 59% of all rail tank cars carrying Class 3 flammable liquids were built to the new DOT-117 specification or modified to meet the DOT-117R (retrofit) specification (see Figure 1 above), ...

According to police and fire authorities in Jonesboro, Arkansas, emergency crews responded to Trinity Rail at around 7:30 p.m. after a worker fell into a tank.

A locomotive with two human operators in the locomotive cab was pulling eight freight cars when the empty tank car derailed about 5:40 p.m. Thursday and the train came to a stop near Seco Street ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT /Gray News) - One person was rescued Friday after officials in Arkansas said he fell into a rail tank car. According to police and fire authorities in Jonesboro, Arkansas, ...

According to police and fire authorities in Jonesboro, Arkansas, emergency crews responded to Trinity Rail at around 7:30 p.m. after a worker fell into a tank.