Asheville first responders are taking part in regional safety training. We're told it's the type of training they won't get a typical fire academy. Norfolk Southern is conducting training that ...

Advancing rail safety requires sustained collaboration among regulators, railroads, suppliers, and researchers. FRA ...

The Citizens for Rail Safety (CRS) released a new report on the state of hazmat training for rail employees. A need for quality training was the main conclusion of the report that cited the ...

To comply with the law, each railroad or contractor employing one or more safety-related railroad employees must submit a training program to FRA for approval and designate the minimum training ...

OmniTRAX affiliate Panhandle Northern Railway (PNR) and the Short Line Safety Institute (SLSI) recently held a two-day railroad emergency response training in Borger, Tex., that combined a ...

Late last month, Norfolk Southern hosted three days of safety training in Harrisburg for emergency responders from across central Pennsylvania. The training provided by the company, which owns ...

A decade ago few would have believed it. Now, thanks to a boom in shale gas, US oil output is set to reach more than ten million barrels per day, beating the previous record set in 1970. According to ...

CAMP. LYONS ALAN SHOPE SHOWS US WHAT IS BEING DONE. A LOT OF WHAT I SEE IS HUMAN ERROR. IT’S AN AFTERNOON ON TOP OF A TRAIN FOR KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT CHIEF ANDREW NOVAK. JUST ...

Union Pacific Railroad conducted training for 80 emergency response personnel from 17 states April 8 - 10 and April 20 - 22. The training focused on sharpening the emergency responders’ skills to ...

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration proposed Friday to require security training for railroad and bus workers, to protect against terrorism like the commuter-train bombings in ...