After five fires, federal safety agency urges SEPTA to retrofit or replace Regional Rail cars

SEPTA should sideline its 225 Silverliner IV Regional Rail cars after the aging vehicles were involved in five train fires ...
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Federal agency issues emergency order to SEPTA over fire risk on Regional Rail cars

The National Transportation Safety Board urged SEPTA to make changes after multiple fires on Silverliner IV rail cars used on ...
New York Post

35 Union Pacific train cars derail in horrific scene in small Texas town

Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations have been ordered following the afternoon ...
Reuters

U.S. urges rail tank car owners, shippers to use safer, newer cars

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) on Wednesday urged rail tank car owners and hazmat shippers of flammable liquids to stop using tank cars like some in a Feb. 3 Norfolk ...