Derailments in a sentence

The Federal Railroad Administration already administers a wide array of rules intended to reduce the incidence of derailments, and the data suggests they have been successful—derailments are down nearly 50 percent in the last two decades.

Bilodeau said that Voestalpine has three main technologies that it employs on rail lines to help railroads avoid derailments.

But faced with a cargo crisis, rail labor disputes, and derailments, he has often been absent.

Federal regulators and members of Congress are urging railroads to do more to prevent derailments after recent fiery wrecks involving hazardous chemicals in Ohio and Minnesota prompted evacuations.

In 2014, following a series of derailments and explosions, the Obama administration weighed new rules for trains carrying hazardous materials.

Jean-Pierre said the U.S. Department of Transportation is looking into ways to prevent derailments.

Later Wednesday, the Senate committee will debate broad, new rail safety legislation in response to the wreck in Ohio and other derailments that followed.

Meanwhile, engineers are studying all aspects of the system to figure out the root cause for two derailments in 2021 and a “near-catastrophic” failure of a cartridge assembly in July 2022.

Most derailments happen in or near railyards, cause no damage and are just inconvenient.

Multiple train derailments occur in the US every day.

So the problems that were problems on the railroads did not get solved in the last contract negotiations and catastrophes like East Palestine and the billion other derailments we've seen this year, so on and so forth.

The derailment comes amid heightened attention to train derailments after 38 cars of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, 2023.

The derailments are more severe.

The events in East Palestine show there are other dangerous chemicals that make a train hazardous and flammable and that additional steps must be taken to ensure future derailments are prevented.

The notice cited three different Norfolk Southern derailments just since 2021 in which burnt journal bearings likely played a role.

There were at least 1,164 train derailments across the country last year, according to data from the Federal Railroad Administration.

In 2022 alone, there were 952 Class I freight train derailments; a single derailment of radioactive waste could result in widespread catastrophe.

The company also announced last week that it will lead an industrywide examination of how to improve the way vent and burn decisions are made in future derailments.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the U.S. shouldn’t accept the current average of nearly three derailments a day, and that regulators will keep fighting to improve that record.

For many, this year was the straw that broke the camel’s back, with two derailments in one month on the T, a host of train delays and a fare hike to boot.