Marietta Police said the homeless man had fallen on the tracks, was unable to get up and eventually suffered hypothermia An alert freight train conductor is being praised for rescuing a homeless man ...

FONTANA, Calif. – A surgical team amputated the arm of a conductor Friday to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that struck a slow-moving freight train on tracks 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

The role: Train conductors are responsible for the safe co-ordination and operation of locomotives. They keep track of schedules and shipping records, as well as assist in the coupling and uncoupling ...

Two weeks ago, a BNSF freight train conductor, who asked not to be named so he could speak freely about his experience, fell asleep on duty while the train was moving.

Booth is a Retired Norfolk & Western conductor with 42 years of service and a lifelong rail historian. He lives in Roanoke. Sometime in the near future the nations railroads plans to implement the ...

The two workers had got out of their train to investigate a problem when they were hit by a passing passenger train WASHINGTON—Two conductors who got out of their freight train to follow up an alert ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police say a conductor was shot and killed during a robbery on a freight train that had stopped for other rail traffic in New Orleans. The westbound CSX train was ...

MAMARONECK - A 31-year-old freight train conductor suffered a severe head injury Monday morning as his train traveled through the village, officials said. The conductor, an employee of Providence & ...

A recent headline in The Baltimore Sun raised a prime question surrounding the railroad industry these days (“Tech could cut train crews from 2 to 1, but is it safe?” Jan. 21). Unfortunately, the ...