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Members of the River Industry Action Committee (RIAC), along with towing company captains, met with Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers officials on June 29 in St. Louis to hear the latest updates on Lock & Dam 25 and to provide industry feedback on ways to avoid rail/barge incidents. The meetings were held in downtown St. Louis at the Robert A. Young Federal Building. The first meeting with Coast Guard officials, which included rail industry representatives, grew out of an incident on November 15, 2021, when a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train collided with a barge that impinged on a railway track. Multiple coal cars overturned, some went into the Mississippi River, and two diesel locomotives derailed. There was some loss of cargo and two minor injuries. The incident happened in Lee County, Iowa, near the town of Montrose. |