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

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

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 of the company’s trains in East Palestine, Ohio last month.

That incident sparked a fire and led to the evacuation of 4,700 residents, as some of the derailed cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a flammable and ...