Letter to the editor: ‘Near misses’ disconcerting

(Re: Two freight train cars derail in Middlebury; no injuries or spills.) As someone whose home is right alongside the tracks just north of that incident this latest near miss concerns me. It’s not about the bullet that was dodged; it’s also about the potential for a real catastrophe. There was another even nearer miss about 11 years ago. I had just moved here in August 2007 when the first derailment occurred downtown. Less than a year later, with no media coverage that I know of, there was another derailme … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Railway officials are pointing to “metal fatigue” in a track switch as the cause of the derailment of two freight train cars — one of them containing limestone, the other one empty — on tracks off Seymour Street in Middlebury at aroun … (read more)