OMAHA, Neb. — The flurry of contract agreements announced this fall offers evidence that railroads and their unions are working to avoid the standoffs that led them to a brink of a strike in 2022.

The Biden administration is pressuring three major rail companies to provide their workers with paid sick days, aiming to expand the benefit into an industrywide norm.

WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — An evacuation order remained in effect Sept. 25 for residents in an Ohio community as crews continued to work at the scene of a dangerous chemical leak.

OMAHA, Neb. — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a certain type of derailment, the National Academies of Sciences said.

The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews.

Negotiations to avert a major railroad strike in Canada will resume Aug. 7 after talks between the three parties were stalled for months.

The fiery North Dakota derailment that burned for days early last month was the latest train crash to involve the flawed tank cars that the NTSB has been trying to get off the tracks for decades.

An in-depth examination of nationwide freight rail policy is on a House committee’s agenda before lawmakers leave Washington for the August recess.

Congressional Democrats on the transportation committees are pressing for approval of rail safety legislation after an investigation of a high-profile freight train derailment in Ohio.

A huge train bridge collapsed into the Big Sioux River near Sioux City, Iowa, late June 23, an emergency manager said.