September 16, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Daisy Nguyen on September 16.) LOS ANGELES — The state’s top rail safety regulator said Monday he would seek an emergency order banning train operators from using cell phones, as federal investigators...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Matthew L. Wald appeared on the New York Times website on September 13.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whatever Metrolink’s initial assertion about the cause of the deadly train crash Friday in Los Angeles, there is still room for a thorough and revealing...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The following story by Dan Weikel and Steve Hymon appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 14.) LOS ANGELES — Friday’s disastrous collision that took the lives of at least 25 people might have been prevented if Metrolink and the region’s...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Gillian Flaccus on September 14.) LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators on Sunday combed railroad tracks and crushed wreckage looking for evidence to explain the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in 15 years...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Amy Taxin on September 15.) LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators said Sunday that audio recordings from a commuter train are missing required verbal safety checks between the engineer and the conductor in the...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following story by Louis Sahagun, Scott Glover and Ted Rohrlich appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on September 15.) LOS ANGELES — Federal officials investigating Friday’s fatal Metrolink train crash focused Sunday on whether a signal that should...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, UP
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 13. Tim Smith is Chairman of the BLET’s California State Legislative Board.) LOS ANGELES — The death toll in the collision of a Metrolink train and a freight train reached 25 Saturday and was expected to...
September 12, 2008 | Accident, CN, Headlines
(The following story by Elise Stolte appeared on The Edmonton Journal website on September 12.) EDMONTON – David Hackner ducked behind the instrument panel in his CN Rail engine as his 85-car train hurtled toward a huge piece of road equipment parked on the...
September 12, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(The following appeared on the Daily Nonpareil website on September 12.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A 52-year-old man lost both of his legs in a railroad accident Wednesday night. Council Bluffs police officers were dispatched to 16th Avenue and Main Street for an injured...
September 3, 2008 | Accident, Headlines
(The following story by Mike Holtzclaw appeared on the Daily Press website on September 2.) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A workman was killed over the weekend when he was pinned beneath a train car near the CSX coal storage in Newport News. Brian Lee Keith, 21, was airlifted...
