WASHINGTON ― The heightened safety challenges and operational demands of long freight trains require a combination of actions from major freight railroad companies, the Federal Railroad Administration ...

A BNSF freight train in Barrio Logan. (File 9hoto by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) If California’s politically influential labor unions get their way, the state’s freight trains would get ...

TRAIN HORNS BLARING. YOU HEAR THE WHISTLE SOMETIMES AND YOU’RE LIKE, OH, SHOOT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, HEARD IT THIS TIME CAME DOWN AND SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE GOT STUCK AND THEN DRAGGED. FROM WHAT I ...

In response to a congressional mandate, this report examines the safety challenges arising from the operation of longer freight trains, and particularly from the increased use of longer manifest ...

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. Nicknamed 'monster trains,' these freight haulers ...