Lawsuit filed after Train Derailment
(Reading, PA) -- In the wake of the recent Ohio train derailment on the Pennsylvania border, a class-action lawsuit has been filed against Norfolk Southern. David Masur, the executive director of PennEnvironment, says tighter restrictions need to be applied to freight trains that run through the state. Norfolk Southern has routes through Berks County and the Lehigh Valley and Masur's report from 2015 says parts of Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton were all in the state's top 15 at-risk zip codes for train derailments.