The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday.Federal Railroad ...
National Transportation Safety Board investigators say Positive Train Control — a system of satellites, communication towers and complex software that makes sure trains' safely follow their routes — ...
CONTRACTED TO INSTALL FEDERALLY MANDATED SAFETY SYSTEMS ON THE COMMUTER RAIL IS NOW SUING THE MBTA. A HITACHI RAIL IS ACCUSING THE MBTA OF REQUIRING EXTRA WORK BEYOND THEIR CONTRACT AND THEN REFUSING ...
Trains have been delayed on every Metra commuter line in the Chicago area during the Tuesday evening rush, due to a positive train control system outage. Metra officials said, beginning around 5 p.m., ...
LOS ANGELES -- Less than a month after a collision of commuter and freight trains left 25 dead and at least 130 injured, two major freight railroad companies said Wednesday they would install ...
The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...