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Coal cars are rumbling down the tracks of the North Shore Scenic Railroad for the first time in years. Until this week, the line hadn't seen freight-car traffic since the late 1980s, when it was ...
Coal miners in Kentucky continue to protest their former employer by the blocking a railroad track, demanding back pay.
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky miners who say they haven’t been paid by bankrupt coal operator Blackjewel LLC are blocking train tracks as part of a protest against the company.
COAL CITY, Ill. - A 40-year-old man was hit and killed by a train traveling through Coal City early Wednesday morning, about 65 miles southwest of Chicago.
Coal miners in Kentucky continue to protest their former employer by blocking a railroad track that carries coal trains, demanding back pay after being laid off last month.
Trains are running again on tracks that had been seriously damaged Friday when a coal train derailed north of Lawrence. The Union Pacific tracks were repaired over the weekend, and railroad crews ...
A BNSF Railway train derailment in western Montana sent 45 empty coal cars off the tracks and closed a portion of U.S. Highway 93 near the town of Olney.
ST. STEPHEN, S.C. - Seven coal cars jumped the tracks in St. Stephen, creating detours and leading to a clean-up effort that could take days.
Several former Kentucky miners who say they haven't been paid by Blackjewel LLC were blocking train tracks Tuesday as part of a protest against the company.