An investigation is under way into an accident in which a 67-year-old railway switchman was crushed to death Tuesday after becoming trapped between two railroad cars in Bedford Park. Eugene Janik ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Haynes Hackett, a switchman of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad, who lost both legs by the sudden starting of a train which he was switching, got a verdict for $ ...

Following a Feb. 9, 2022, accident involving a BNSF Railway switchman who was struck and killed by a train during a switching movement in the railroad’s Denver, Colo., Globeville Yard, the Class I has ...

A former switchman with Tacoma Rail has sued the railroad, contending it created an unsafe work environment that contributed to an accident in which he lost a leg. Nathan Johnson, 45, of Fife ...

At the same time George Hanson, oldest railroad switchman here, announced he would retire today, winding up 41 years of service for the Pere Marquette at the north yard here. He is to receive a ...

Railroad switchman W.J. Steed, 37, apparently had a second profession: dope peddler. Police arrested Steed on a tip that he was a member of a local drug “gang.” Six capsules of cocaine were ...

The "Railyard Phantom" first became known in Hammond on Saturday night, Aug. 3, 1963, when Virgil Terry, a switchman at the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad yards, found engineer Roy Bottoroff ...

One day last fall, Railroad Switchman Lyman Mintkenbaugh of Castro Valley, Calif., got a call from his brother James, 46, an Arlington, Va., real estate salesman who had recently come West and ...

William D. Stockwell, a retired captain in the Buffalo Police Department and a railroad switchman for 40 years, died Sunday (June 23, 2002) in his home after a 16-month illness. He was 71.

A divided Missouri appellate panel has upheld a $12 million jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City Southern Railway switchman who was run over by a train in Illinois. The verdict now stands as one ...