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Norfolk Southern Derailment in West Virginia Results in Ruptured Tank Cars and Creek Contamination

By Pottroff & Karlin LLC | railroad news

(Vivian, West Virginia – January 3, 2014)

West Virginia public safety officials were expressing concern following the derailment of 17 freight cars, including 15 tank cars loaded with tar, of a 111-car Norfolk Southern Railway train measuring 7,000 feet in length and being powered by five locomotives on its way eastbound from Belleview, OH to Linwood, NC along U.S. Highway 52 in McDowell County near Vivian, WV at about 8:00 A.M. Friday morning.

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News Media Exposes Railroad Industry Reluctance on PTC

By Pottroff & Karlin LLC | railroad news

(New York, New York – December 20, 2013)

Continuing to call the American railroad industry out on the majority of U.S. rail carriers seeking delay on the year’s end-2015 Congressionally-mandated institution of a nationwide Positive Train Control (PTC) satellite-based railroad safety system, several news media providers have recently questioned the true intent of U.S. rail carriers in delaying implementation another three to five years.

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Union Pacific Train Derailment Injures Two and Causes Hazmat Concern

By Pottroff & Karlin LLC | railroad news

(Benbrook, Texas – July 18, 2013)

The cause of a derailment in the far southwest greater Fort Worth, TX area was still under investigation late Thursday morning after two locomotives and seven cars of a Union Pacific freight train traveling from Tucson, AZ to Dallas, TX derailed at about 5:00 A.M., injuring two train crew members and causing panic that a car loaded with at least 30,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate was among the derailed cars.

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