March 30, 2022 | BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Television station 9 News, March 29, 2022) DENVER, Colo. — A BNSF Railway (BNSF) worker who died early last month at the company’s Globeville Yard in Denver fell from the front of a locomotive while switching railroad freight cars, according to a...
March 14, 2022 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 11, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The failure of an operator to stop a tie tamping machine — with the operator admitting he was in a panicked state because the machine did not appear to stop when he expected — led to the death of a track...
February 11, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 10, 2022) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday released a preliminary report on a Dec. 9, 2021, collision between a CSX freight train and a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) trolley car...
January 25, 2022 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 24, 2022) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) used the fifth anniversary of a deadly railroad worker accident to advocate for recommendations that would address worker safety. Full story: Progressive...
December 13, 2021 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, December 1, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued Wednesday a Safety Alert calling on rail transit agencies and commuter railroads across the nation to assess its fleets...
November 11, 2021 | Headlines, Legislation, NTSB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 10, 2021) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress late last week will advance more than a dozen National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) safety priorities, including those that would impact the rail...
November 11, 2021 | Accident, CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The State, November 10, 2021) COLUMBIA, S.C. — A series of ill-fated decisions led to the 2018 death of a South Carolina welder who was hit by a train going 50 miles per hour on tracks near Estill, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a final...
October 27, 2021 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 26, 2021) (NTSB Note: This information is preliminary and will be either supplemented or corrected during the course of the investigation. Release date October 26, 2021.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On...
October 27, 2021 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, October 26, 2021) HELENA, Mont. — A preliminary report on an Amtrak train derailment in Montana last month that killed three people and injured dozens more offered no clues about what triggered the accident, but said the train’s emergency...
October 4, 2021 | Accident, Amtrak, FRA, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Washington Post, October 1, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a week since an Amtrak train derailed in rural Montana, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Federal investigators are working to determine what caused the derailment, which halted...
