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HQ-BNSF-2021-0303-1417
On March 2, 2021, at approximately 1220 p.m. PST, a BNSF Railway train (H-KCKBAR1-28A) derailed 45 cars approximately one mile east of Ludlow, California on BNSF’s Needles Subdivision. One tank car containing ethyl alcohol sustained significant damage, rupturing the tank and releasing its...
Stakeholder Perceptions of Longer Trains
This report documents stakeholder perceptions emerging from focus groups about very long trains (VLTs) with participants from three labor unions, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and two freight railroads. All stakeholders expressed uncertainty about how to define a VLT and noted that...