January 7, 2009 | Accident, CSX, Headlines
(The following story by Louis Cooper appeared on the Pensacola News Journal website on January 6.) PENSACOLA, Fla. — Efforts continued Monday to mop up 23,000 gallons of petroleum that leaked from a damaged tanker car in a CSX train derailment near Milton on Saturday....
January 7, 2009 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Rebecca Cathcart appeared on the New York Times website on January 6.) LOS ANGELES — Supervisors of an engineer who had been text-messaging when he drove a commuter train into an oncoming freight here in September had been warned that he often...
January 5, 2009 | Accident, Headlines, NS
(The following story by April Bailey appeared on the Aiken Standard website on January 1.) AIKEN, S.C. — It has been four years since the Graniteville train wreck, and for the fourth year since the tragedy, the community will gather to mourn the lives of the nine...
December 29, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 25.) LOS ANGELES — A cutting-edge proposal to focus live video cameras on engineers at the controls of Metrolink trains is drawing fire from employee groups and skepticism from...
December 29, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Robert J. Lopez and Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 26.) LOS ANGELES — The position of trackside warning signals near the Chatsworth Metrolink station could have increased distractions for the engineer...
December 12, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Ted Rohrlich appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 12.) LOS ANGELES — The roots of the worst passenger rail disaster in modern California history go far deeper than whether a Metrolink engineer ran through a red stop light and...
December 9, 2008 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jill Moon and Maggie Borman appeared on The Telegraph website on December 8.) BRIGHTON, Ill. — A passenger train struck a stalled tractor-trailer and derailed Monday, a first in Macoupin County, miraculously causing only minor injuries to 10...
November 24, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Amy Taxin on November 21.) SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California commuter train that sideswiped a freight train this week had run a red signal, an investigator said Friday, and officials are looking at brake...
October 31, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following story by Cosby Woodruff appeared on the Montgomery Advertiser website on October 31.) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The decision to take a far too-heavy train across a just-repaired bridge was the likely cause of a 2007 train derailment that sent parts of...
October 30, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jay Reeves on October 29.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A train hauling pieces of space shuttle rockets derailed last year because of inadequate repairs to a railroad bridge and the enormous weight of the load, according...
