Every Union Pacific freight train that runs in Houston is operated by a Union Pacific employee, whether it is an engineer operating a conventional locomotive or a conductor operating a ...

Virtually every day, Union Pacific moves a train of up to 80 cars – many of them filled with ethanol, liquid petroleum, and a variety of highly toxic chemicals – from its Settegast yard to the nearby ...

The Vectron is equipped with the ATO system. Credit: DB Cargo. DB Cargo has equipped a locomotive with Automatic Train Operation (ATO) for automated driving and Remote Train Operation (RTO) for remote ...

Using remote control operators helps limit costs by using less experienced workers to move locomotives that help assemble trains — a task that once required licensed engineers who are among the ...

At the request of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Mandan City Commission will consider a resolution forbidding railroads from operating remote controlled locomotives in Mandan until ...

MATTOON — A locomotive running down the tracks without an engineer in the cab used to be a runaway train. Today, a locomotive driven by someone outside the engine cab is a run-of-the-mill operation in ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Oct. 29 released the final report for its investigation of the Sept. 17, 2023, accident involving a CSX mechanical department employee who was struck ...

EKE-Electronics will supply locomotive control equipment for the modernisation of ÖBB locomotive series Rh 1044. At Innotrans 2008 EKE’s Swiss system integrator partner Railtec Systems signed a ...

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