May 28, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: www.mynorthwest.com, May 24, 2019) SEATTLE, Wash. — Washington State Senator Steve O’Ban is proposing a new transportation panel in response to the fatal train derailment near DuPont in 2017. Standing at the site of incident, he pointed to some of the...
May 28, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Tacoma News Tribune, May 25, 2019) TACOMA, Wash. — Call it a crash, or call it a catastrophe. But don’t call the December 2017 Amtrak train derailment near DuPont, which killed three people and injured dozens more, an accident. Full story:...
May 23, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Television station KIRO 7, May 22, 2019) SEATTLE — The State of Washington will soon remove the type of older train from Amtrak Cascades service that crashed in 2017, killing three people. Of the six Amtrak Cascades trains that run between Eugene, Oregon, and...
May 23, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Radio station KCUR 98.3, May 22, 2019) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Passenger trains will keep rolling through rural communities in Kansas, for now. But Amtrak still hasn’t committed to operating the long-distance routes that connect small towns to larger cities...
May 22, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Tacoma News Tribune, May 21, 2019) TACOMA, Wash. — An Amtrak train derailment near DuPont that killed three and injured dozens happened because the engineer lost track of where he was on the route and was going more than twice the speed limit when he hit a...
May 17, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, May 16, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board plans to hold a board meeting Tuesday, 1 p.m. (EDT), to determine the probable cause of the fatal, Dec. 18, 2017, Amtrak accident...
April 26, 2019 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 26, 2019) FORT WORTH, Texas — Some tanker cars involved in a fiery train derailment Wednesday in south Fort Worth were older model rail cars that are considered less safe for transporting flammable liquids than newer models,...
April 26, 2019 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: NBC Dallas Fort Worth, April 25, 2019) FORT WORTH, Texas — A team of investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board is in North Texas to try to determine why a train derailed before bursting into flames early Wednesday morning in Fort Worth. Full...
April 18, 2019 | Headlines, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: Washington Post, April 17, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On an August evening in 1969, a Connecticut train wreck made history. A pair of passenger trains in Darien collided head-on, killing five people and injuring 35. Full story: Washington...
April 10, 2019 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, April 9, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2017 deaths of two CSX Transportation workers were the result of their decision to walk on an active Amtrak train track in Washington, D.C., the National Transportation...
