“Without Railway Reform Your Town Could Become the Next East Palestine” | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

“Without railway reform your town could become the next East Palestine” | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Aftermath of Norfolk Southern’s February 2023 derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. NTSB image _____________________ East Palestine resident Jess Conard became an expert on rail safety “the hard way.” In an opinion column that was published in The Hill in December 2025, the East Palestine, Ohio resident sounded an alarm that Congress has yet to pass rail safety reform three years after the fiery derailment in Conard’s hometown t…

East Palestine Clean Up Completed

Norfolk Southern has completed physical restoration activities at the site of the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Now that the primary cleanup work is over, any further work will likely involve site maintenance, along with water monitoring programs established with various government agencies. Village manager Antonio Diaz-Guy stated to local press that “I think our water is probably cleaner now than it was 100 years ago, …