October 24, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, KCS
(The following appeared on the Clarion-Ledger website on October 23.) JACKSON, Miss. — A bulletin released late today by the state’s Department of Transportation advises road closures linked to the crash involving two freight trains may persist into Friday. An...
October 24, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 24.) LOS ANGELES — Faced with potentially staggering wrongful death and injury claims in the wake of last month’s Chatsworth train crash, the Metrolink board today is...
October 13, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Jeff Gottlieb appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 11.) LOS ANGELES. — In the wake of the devastating Chatsworth train crash last month, Metrolink’s board Friday appointed an 11-member panel of industry experts to take a...
October 9, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following blog by Steve Hymon appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 8.) LOS ANGELES — Important news out of Van Nuys this morning: The two freight railroads that share tracks with Metrolink trains have said they’ll install positive train...
October 7, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Steve Hymon appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 6.) LOS ANGELES — Top officials with the firm that contracts to run Metrolink trains made their first public comments Sunday night about last month’s deadly head-on...
October 6, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on October 4.) LOS ANGELES — Three observers who say they were at the Chatsworth Metrolink station before last month’s deadly train crash...
October 2, 2008 | Accident, FRA, Headlines
(The Federal Railroad Administration issued the following statement by Administrator Joseph H. Boardman on October 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Today’s announcement by the National Transportation Safety Board regarding the tragic Metrolink crash has made it clear that the...
October 2, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Randal C. Archibold appeared on the New York Times website on October 1.) LOS ANGELES — The engineer of a commuter train that collided last month with a freight train here, killing 25 people and injuring more than 130, was sending text messages...
October 2, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on October 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is an update of the NTSB’s investigation of the September 12, 2008 accident in Chatsworth, California involving a Metrolink commuter train and a Union...
October 1, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 30.) SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Lawyers have begun campaigns to represent victims of the Sept. 12 Metrolink commuter train wreck that killed 25 people and injured more than 130 others in suburban Los Angeles....
