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Topher Sanders, ProPublica

Topher Sanders, ProPublica

Topher Sanders is a reporter at ProPublica covering railroad safety.

A Norfolk Southern policy lets officials order crews to ignore safety alerts

By: and - February 24, 2023

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Norfolk Southern allows a monitoring team to instruct crews to ignore alerts from train track sensors designed to flag potential mechanical problems. ProPublica learned of […]