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Shippers, railroads differ on tank car design

(The Chemical & Engineering News posted the following article by Glenn Hess on its website on June 6.) WASHINGTON — Chemical shippers and railroad carriers disagreed last week at a Department of Transportation (DOT) hearing over how to improve the safety...

Shippers, railroads differ on tank car design

(The Chemical & Engineering News posted the following article by Glenn Hess on its website on June 6.) WASHINGTON — Chemical shippers and railroad carriers disagreed last week at a Department of Transportation (DOT) hearing over how to improve the safety...

Simulator could make trains safer

(The following article by Lindsey Ellerson was posted on the ABC News website on May 10.) WASHINGTON — Two trains collide and a passenger car is left teetering from a cliff. Unsure of where the exits are or how to escape, you wait in fear. It’s likely that...

Simulator could make trains safer

(The following article by Lindsey Ellerson was posted on the ABC News website on May 10.) WASHINGTON — Two trains collide and a passenger car is left teetering from a cliff. Unsure of where the exits are or how to escape, you wait in fear. It’s likely that...

LIRR cars survive crash test

(The following article by Samuel Bruchey was posted on the Newsday website on March 24.) PUEBLO, Colo. — On a frozen Colorado desert, two old Long Island Rail Road cars paid the ultimate price for safety yesterday. Just after 1 p.m. Eastern time, the...

LIRR cars survive crash test

(The following article by Samuel Bruchey was posted on the Newsday website on March 24.) PUEBLO, Colo. — On a frozen Colorado desert, two old Long Island Rail Road cars paid the ultimate price for safety yesterday. Just after 1 p.m. Eastern time, the...

Metrolink first in line to get safer train cars

(The following article by Caitlin Liu was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on March 24.) LOS ANGELES — Standing in front of railroad tracks near Glendale where a deadly Metrolink crash occurred just over a year ago, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman...

Metrolink first in line to get safer train cars

(The following article by Caitlin Liu was posted on the Los Angeles Times website on March 24.) LOS ANGELES — Standing in front of railroad tracks near Glendale where a deadly Metrolink crash occurred just over a year ago, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman...