Rail workers two seconds from disaster in shocking 78mph near-miss on train line - Track staff in the wrong location were ‘obscured from the driver’s view’ due to heavy rain ...

Railroad workers currently get no paid sick days—and these tentative agreements would not fix that. Photo: WSDOT (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Oct. 11, 2022.

Railroad companies filled the labor void by hiring Mexican workers. Between 1880 and 1930, Mexican track workers made up nearly two-thirds of the track labor force in the Southwest, Great Plains ...

A rail worker was nearly killed by a high speed train travelling at 104mph (167km/h), investigators said. The near miss happened in April 2024 on the Midland Main Line at Chiltern Green in ...

Network Rail fined £3.75m after deaths of two track workers Gareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael Lewis, 58, were hit by a train while working for Network Rail near Margam, Port Talbot, in July 2019.

Network Rail has been fined £3.41m over the death of a track worker in south-west London who died after he was struck by a train. Tyler Byrne, 30, from Aldershot in Hampshire, was killed after a ...

When train travel expanded into Illinois in the 1800s, ... Crews might be able to lay 10 miles of track a day, he added. White rail workers supervised Latino members of track-laying crews.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad closed for refurbishment earlier this week and work is well underway on the attraction, with portions of the track already moved and props tagged. Big Thunder ...

Five workers were taken to area hospitals Friday after an incident involving Amtrak equipment and personnel near a Commuter Rail station in Boston's Hyde Park.

Eli Garcia, 6, watches a model train locomotive travel down its track during the Abilene Railroad Festival Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. The Abilene Society of Model Railroaders set up several displays ...

Florida Gulf & Atlantic (FG&A) Railroad workers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) of the Teamsters Rail Conference have ratified their first contract. The ...

Rail workers two seconds from disaster in shocking 78mph near-miss on train line. Track staff in the wrong location were ‘obscured from the driver’s view’ due to heavy rain ...