September 14, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Transport Topics, September 13, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Equipping the country’s freight and commercial trains with technology designed to automatically slow down or stop trains traveling at dangerous speeds would improve safety, the head of the National...
September 7, 2018 | BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 6, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report published Thursday a series of human errors led to a BNSF Railway train striking and killing two BNSF roadway...
August 23, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: KWY News Radio, August 22, 2018) PHILADELPHIA — The case against the engineer of the ill-fated Amtrak 188, which crashed more than three years ago, has stalled again. Both prosecutors and the defense say the National Transportation Safety Board is not handing...
August 21, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, August 20, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jennifer Homendy was sworn in Monday as a board member of the National Transportation Safety Board during a brief ceremony at NTSB headquarters. The addition of Homendy...
August 10, 2018 | BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, August 9, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 22, 2018, about 4:35 a.m. central daylight time, southbound BNSF Railway (BNSF) freight train U‐CPGSAP‐059 derailed 33 jacketed DOT‐117R tank cars at milepost 165.3...
August 8, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, August 7, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bruce Landsberg was appointed Tuesday Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and also starts his appointment as a member. Landsberg, a well-known general...
August 8, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, August 7, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The failures of a freight train company and a city to mitigate known safety hazards at a Biloxi, Mississippi, grade crossing is the probable cause of a fatal crash there,...
August 2, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Railway Age opinion column by David Schanoes, August 1, 2018) NEW YORK — You know what? I kind of like National Transportation Safety Board member Earl F. Weener, who has been an NTSB member since 2010. I can imagine Weener as a railroad superintendent,...
August 1, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, July 31, 2018) The U.S. Senate last week confirmed Bruce Landsberg and Jennifer Homendy as members of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Full story: Progressive Railroading
July 17, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, July 11, 2018) SEATTLE, Wash. — Federal safety investigators on Tuesday questioned transportation officials about last year’s Amtrak train derailment south of Seattle that killed three people and injured dozens, focusing some questions...
