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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Union Pacific and a former switchman at the railroad’s Grand Junction, Colo., rail yard have settled for an undisclosed amount his allegations that he was discriminated against because he has ...

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 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 ...

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.

In the lower bunk of Wanger’s cell lay stone-faced Evan Charles Thomas, the warped railroad switchman who, with his .22 rifle, had murdered one woman, wounded four, and thus inspired the recent ...