September 30, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 30.) LOS ANGELES — At 11:30 on the morning of Sept. 19, some 60 engineers and conductors gathered at a modest La Crescenta house. They had come to memorialize Robert...
September 29, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Jeff Gottlieb appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 27.) LOS ANGELES — Under new pressure to swiftly increase safety measures, Metrolink will begin adding a second engineer to some of its commuter trains in the first visible...
September 26, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following statement by Dan J. Shewchuk of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference was issued on September 25.) OTTAWA — The toll from the head-on collision between a Metrolink passenger train and a Union Pacific freight train, on September 15 in Chatsworth (50 km...
September 26, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 25.) LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County transportation officials agreed on Thursday to help fund technology that could help prevent train collisions and called for putting a second engineer and video cameras in...
September 26, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Steve Hymon appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 26.) LOS ANGELES — In his most extensive public statement since the deadly Chatsworth train crash, Metrolink Chief Executive David R. Solow said Thursday that his agency would...
September 25, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Steve Hymon and Rich Connell appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 25.) LOS ANGELES — Metrolink should add a second engineer to its locomotives, install anti-collision technology and place an additional video camera in the cab...
September 24, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on September 24.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Was fatigue a factor in the commuter train accident in Southern California earlier this month? Many rail safety experts believe it could have been. Robert Sanchez,...
September 24, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Erica Werner on September 23.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Southern California’s Metrolink service is considering adding a second engineer on its trains to help with safety in the wake of the Sept. 12 collision in...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Patrick McGreevy appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 20.) SACRAMENTO — The company that provides engineers for Metrolink trains spent $105,000 during the last two years lobbying state lawmakers to give it flexibility to delay...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Robert J. Lopez appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 20.) LOS ANGELES — Engineer Robert M. Sanchez pulled Metrolink 111 out of the Chatsworth station and was rolling north at 54 mph. About a mile later, he entered a restricted...
