trains

The construction on the facility is expected to be completed by late Summer of 2024. The new railway is meant to ease traffic congestion from train crossings in West Tuscaloosa.

Norfolk Southern says that a train derailment in Alabama did not involve toxic materials and did not create danger for the public. Workers on Sunday were cleaning up diesel fuel and engine oil that spilled from the locomotive in Jasper.

Federal investigators say a Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Alabama earlier this month lacked required alignment control couplers and a company inspection didn't identify their absence.

Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a West…