The links to the left provide information to past, present, and future ACTION efforts regarding railroad safety issues.

     You will have the opportunity to view combinations of documentation toward reports made by government entities, individual's personal actions addressing the lack of concern for railroad safety, and other organizational efforts to address the ever growing deterioration of the railway infrastructure.

     Train derailments have increased annually for the past six years. Federal rail safety experts suspect that lax maintenance is a factor. Derailments caused by faulty tracks -- suspected in the recent Amtrak Auto Train derailment in Florida, and proven at the Nodaway, Iowa derailment site of Amtrak's California Zephyr in 2001-- have increased sharply.
     The Florida and Iowa accidents, the recent fatal collision of two trains in California, and plans to ship nuclear waste by rail to Yucca Mountain, Nevada, are focusing attention on rail safety. It is sad how that focus is dropped within the ranks throughout Washington, D.C..
     According to federal figures analyzed by Knight Ridder Newspapers, the number of train derailments in 2001 was the highest since 1985. Very little information is being reported today, just as the railroad industry likes it.