The torque used on the bolts is being probed to determine whether it might have resulted in a disc brake falling off a train and leading to Friday’s derailment. Workers on Monday were continuing ...

The crew then contacted the dispatcher and railroad management to report the unintended brake release and the conductor set a sufficient number of car handbrakes to hold the train on the grade.” FRA ...

On Feb. 3, nearly 50 train cars, including some carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Following the crash, officials conducted a controlled burn of some ...

BNSF’s mechanical division and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC) are working together on a program that seeks to ensure brake health ... the temperature of car wheels as a train passes ...

"ECP brakes would have avoided that monster ... a peak of 117 in 2020 and 85 in 2021. In 2017, a 121-car Norfolk Southern train derailed in Pell City, Alabama, leading to a release of hazardous ...