January 4, 2017 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NBC New York, January 4, 2016) NEW YORK — A Long Island Rail Road train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn at the height of Wednesday’s morning rush, injuring more than 100 people and riddling the track area with shattered glass and debris. Full...
November 21, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, November 21, 2016) PUKHRAYAN, India — At least 115 people were killed when an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescuers working into the night to pull people out of the mangled coaches,...
October 10, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: New York Times, October 9, 2016) NEW YORK — Thirty-three people were injured, four seriously, when two Long Island Rail Road trains, one carrying about 600 people, sideswiped each other on Saturday night, the authorities said. The collision, involving a...
October 4, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: The Record of North Jersey, October 4, 2016) HOBOKEN, N.J. — As workers continued round-the-clock efforts to remove debris from the site of last week’s fatal NJ Transit train accident in Hoboken, attention moved Monday to NJ Transit itself, an agency seeing a...
October 4, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Market Watch, October 4, 2016) HOBOKEN, N.J. — Transportation experts are rattled by the revelation that a black box-like device engineered to survive high-impact crashes and fires wasn’t functioning in the NJ Transit train that crashed last week in Hoboken....
October 3, 2016 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CBS New York, October 3, 2016) HOBOKEN, N.J. — The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s still hoping that a second data recorder from last week’s NJ Transit train crash in Hoboken was functioning. Full story and video: CBS New...
September 30, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, September 29, 2016) NEW YORK — A commuter train derailed and crashed through the station in Hoboken, New Jersey, near New York, on Thursday, killing a woman on the platform and injuring more than 100 people. A list of some recent noteworthy passenger...
September 30, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg, September 29, 2016) HOBOKEN, N.Y. — A fatal train crash that caused structural damage to a major Manhattan-area station exacerbates troubles at New Jersey Transit, which operates one of the nation’s biggest railroads and has been besieged by aging...
September 30, 2016 | Accident, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: CNN, September 30, 2016) NEW YORK — It happened without warning, without time for passengers to realize they were hurtling headlong into a deadly tragedy, without time for commuters standing on the train station platform to flee. Full story:...
September 9, 2016 | Accident, Headlines
(Source: CNN, September 9, 2016) PORTO, Portugal — A train traveling from the Spanish city of Vigo to Oporto in Portugal has “derailed causing deaths and injuries,” according to officials. Full story: CNN
