News / Yet another NS derailment as US legislators scramble to improve safety

A drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. NTSBGov/Handout

10/03/2023

It sounds like a script from a TV melodrama. A Norfolk Southern (NS) train derailed around 6.45 am yesterday in Alabama – hours before NS CEO and president Alan Shaw was due to appear before the US Senate to testify about the derailment of one ...

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