Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Man Recovering after Train Accident

  Christina Cole | January 27, 2007 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Two weeks after a Acampo ranch butcher was critically injured when his truck was hit by a train, his condition is improving.Mike McMahon, 48, at one point was comatose and the doctors had told his family it could be months before he would wake up. But he has since regained consciousness and begun walking, though Doctors have yet to say when he will be released.Ellis says he will likely file a...

• TSA Will Start Monitoring Railroad Freight Cars

  IB Contributor | January 25, 2007 1:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The Transportation Security Administration for the first time, will start a nationwide tracking system to determine how long rail cars filled with toxic chemicals are stopped on tracks or sit in unsecured storage yards in urban areas, according to an article in USA Today by Thomas Frank. TSA officials say unguarded rail cars filled with toxic chemicals such as chlorine in cities are the single...

• Bulgaria's Aviation Sector Is to Be Put into Quarantine

  Rick Patterson | January 24, 2007 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  With Bulgaria's admission into the EU on January 1, 2007, there is cause to apply rigorous safety measures against the new member state. These safety measures will leave Bulgaria outside the single European aviation market, which means that Bulgaria will be treated as any other third country. The EU transport commissioner, Jacques Barrot, was said to be disturbed that there had been little done...

• Rail Cars...What's In Them

  Lee Coleman | January 23, 2007 4:07 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  I came across an article in the Witchita Eagle that was very interesting as far as bringing to attention just what is in those rail cars that roll through our cities every day. Last week here in Kentucky we had two train accidents in two days with hazardous materials involved. According to the paper 30 rail cars a day come through the heart of Lexington carrying such toxins as chlorine and...

• Train Tracks Reopen in Bullitt County After Derailment

  Lee Coleman | January 22, 2007 3:06 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Friday the trains were once again rolling on the tracks in Bullitt County, after a massive derailment on Tuesday. 800 feet of new track had been laid where the fires had scorched the tracks. No answers yet from federal investigators or CSX officials on the cause of the incident. On Saturday some evacuated residents were allowed to return home briefly for necessary items and to check on pets....

• KCS Railroad Pays 37.5 Million Dollars for Crossing Injuries and Death

  Rick Shapiro | January 20, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  An amazing story of a railroad's careless conduct and the intense and lifelong consequences of such carelessness arose out of a recent 37.5 Million Dollar settlement that Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS) paid in October, 2006. I personally spoke with Tom Jones, one of the several trial lawyers with Davis, Bethune and Jones, who represented the entire family that was tragically injured...

• First Lawsuits Filed in Kentucky CSX Train Wreck

  Lee Coleman | January 19, 2007 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Our firm was the first to file a lawsuit yesterday in federal court in Louisville. Lawsuits CSX may have to face are:Personal InjuryProperty Loss or DamageLoss of IncomeLoss of BusinessForced EvacuationShelter In PlaceWe have 17 plaintiffs right now and expect more. People living within a mile have not been allowed back into their homes, some have been allowed to check on pets but only briefly....

• Train Crash Site Cleanup Started

  Lee Coleman | January 18, 2007 1:39 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals leftover from the Tuesday CSX train crash in Bullitt County begins. CSX workers began burning it off in a controlled burn. A huge pit of 90,000 gallons of 1, 3-butadiene from three rail cars is where they started. 14 cars caught fire in the crash from the 80-car train that was headed from Louisville to Birmingham, AL. Around 500 people were evacuated some...

• Train crash flames continue

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  As of yesterday afternoon, the thick cloud of smoke and dangerous flames continued at the site of the Kentucky train derailment on Tuesday. Homes, businesses and schools in the Zoneton community were still evacuated as firefighters worked around the clock to extinguish flames. Reports say that there were no serious injuries resulting from the crash and chemical fire. However, at least 24 people...

• Train Recorder May Offer Clues To Derailment

  Lee Coleman | January 17, 2007 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A recorder was recovered from the train, and hopefully clues will be found as to why the CSX train derailed in Bullitt County yesterday. This was the second major train wreck for CSX in less than 24 hours in Kentucky. The other train wreck was in Irvine, Kentucky and happened Monday when four runaway rail cars traveled 20 miles before crashing into two parked rail cars. In the Bullitt County...