Rail Series

NOTE TO JUDGES: This 5-part series is posted to two pages on our website. Please open all five parts individually by clicking on the headlines below, you…

It’s been nearly two months since a train derailed in Lynchburg, sending a fireball into the sky above that city’s downtown and spilling oil into the…

Each year officials investigate an average of ten derailments in Virginia alone. Most involve coal or grain – cargoes unlikely to cause trouble for nearby…

For decades Americans have worried about our dependence on foreign oil and gas. By 2005 we were importing 60% of our energy, but in 2008 a new technology…

Within hours of a rail crash in Lynchburg on April 30, inspectors for the state and federal governments and CSX were on the scene – trying to figure out…

In just over a year, North America has seen a dozen serious accidents involving trains that derailed while carrying flammable crude oil. One of those…