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Norfolk Southern announces safety upgrades amid derailments

Por: WPLG Local 10 Nation March 06, 2023

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Norfolk Southern announced plans on Monday to improve the use of detectors placed along railroad tracks to spot overheating bearings and other problems in response to a month ago.The announcement came the same day Pennsylvania's governor announced that the company had agreed to pay several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in that state. The company said it would evaluate the distance between “hot bearing... + full article



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