February 26, 2015 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles times, February 25, 2015) LOS ANGELES — A proposed $30-million to $35-million grade separation project that would have prevented Tuesday’s crash of a Metrolink commuter train in Oxnard has been delayed for years by a lack of money, officials...
February 26, 2015 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2015) LOS ANGELES — It was dark early Tuesday morning when Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez drove his truck along a narrow road that parallels train tracks in the farmlands of Oxnard. Full story: Los Angeles...
February 26, 2015 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2015) LOS ANGELES — The train operator severely injured in Tuesday’s Metrolink crash is clinging to life after his heart stopped twice on Wednesday. A day after the commuter train barreled into a heavy-duty pickup truck...
February 25, 2015 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2015) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The truck involved in a Metrolink train derailment Tuesday morning in Oxnard that left dozens injured appears to have been traveling down the tracks just before the collision, an NTSB official said...
February 25, 2015 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: New York Times, February 24, 2015) OXNARD, Calif. — Rail cars skidded onto their sides, a fireball lit up the dark, and nearly 30 people were injured early Tuesday when a commuter train slammed into a truck that had turned onto the railroad tracks and gotten...
February 11, 2015 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Newsweek, February 10, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the conversation after deadly transit accidents tends to focus on the passengers, transit workers often deal with unique forms of trauma. John Tolman, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive...
February 6, 2015 | Accident, Headlines, Operation Lifesaver
(Source: New York Times, February 5, 2015) NEW YORK — Engineers and transportation safety experts around the world are working to reduce the dangers of grade-level rail crossings like the one in Valhalla, N.Y., that was the scene of a deadly accident Tuesday evening....
January 15, 2015 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, January 14, 2015) AUSTIN, Texas — Ten people were killed and five severely injured when a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people skidded off an icy highway overpass and hit a moving freight train on Wednesday, officials said. Full story:...
December 12, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Television station Fox4KC, December 11, 2014) ATCHISON COUNTY, Kan. — An explosion inside a GBW Railcar Services facility sent metal flying and workers to hospitals on Thursday. The 911 call was placed just after 2 p.m. The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office...
December 12, 2014 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Television station Fox4KC, December 11, 2014) ATCHISON COUNTY, Kan. — An explosion inside a GBW Railcar Services facility sent metal flying and workers to hospitals on Thursday. The 911 call was placed just after 2 p.m. The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office...
