September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Sue Doyle appeared on the Contra Costa Times website on September 21.) LOS ANGELES — Following are key events leading up to the deadly head-on collision between Metrolink Train 111 and a Union Pacific freight train. Focusing on the actions of...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Steve Hymon appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 20.) LOS ANGELES — The commuter rail service known as Metrolink — Southern California’s only true regional mass transit carrier — gets little money and even...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Dan Weikel appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 22.) LOS ANGELES — During the evening rush hour on March 25, a runaway freight car weighing 112 tons hurtled down the tracks toward a Massachusetts commuter train loaded with 300...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Rebecca Cathcart appeared on the New York Times website on September 20.) LOS ANGELES — He lived a solitary life, working long days and long nights as the engineer of a commuter train that crawled across Southern California, making stop after...
September 22, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Joe Mozingo appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 21.) LOS ANGELES — Coasting out of Chatsworth at 4:22 p.m., Doyle Souser had caught an early train home from work to cook his family a nice tri-tip for dinner. Charles Peck had...
September 19, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Christina Hoag on September 18.) LOS ANGELES — They stand within feet of speeding locomotives, climb signal poles to photograph passing trains and try to befriend conductors and engineers. Passionate train buffs...
September 19, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Scott Gold and Molly Hennessy-Fiske appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 19.) LOS ANGELES — The tribute reads like something that might be written for a rock star who died too soon: “We will never forget you. Let your...
September 19, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Daisy Nguyen on September 19.) LOS ANGELES — California regulators reacting to the deadly wreck of a commuter train issued an emergency order Thursday banning train operators from using cell phones on duty. The...
September 18, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Anna Gorman appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on Sptember 18.) LOS ANGELES — Still in a daze from the crash, Donald Ashman walked over to the first body. Ashman knelt down and lifted a corner of a white blanket covering the body, placed...
September 18, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Daisy Nguyen on September 18.) LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities investigating why a commuter train engineer ran through a red signal and into an oncoming freight train have confirmed that he was text messaging...
