February 9, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 8, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of an accident involving two freight trains in Roswell, New Mexico in 2015; the board...
February 8, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Transport Topics, February 7, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The determination by federal investigators that two high-profile train collisions in New York and New Jersey were the result of undiagnosed sleep apnea prompted a member of the Senate Commerce Committee...
February 8, 2018 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 6, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday determined that two commuter railroad terminal accidents in the New York area were caused by engineer fatigue resulting...
February 6, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Public Radio, February 5, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators say a track switch locked in the wrong position appears to have led to Sunday’s deadly Amtrak collision with an idle CSX freight train, and they are hesitant to say this...
February 6, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Post and Courier, February 5, 2018) CAYCE, S.C. — The passenger train abruptly switched tracks. Its horn broke the quiet of the early Sunday morning. The engineer threw off the throttle and slammed on the emergency brakes. In less than 10 seconds, a routine...
February 6, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: ABC News, February 5, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An event data recorder has been recovered from the Amtrak train that collided with a freight train this weekend, revealing the moments leading up to the crash, investigators said Monday. Full story: ABC...
February 5, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, February 5, 2018) CAYCE, S.C. — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina. Full story:...
February 2, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: UPI, February 1, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled out foul play in the case of an Amtrak train — carrying a number of Republican congressional members — that crashed into a garbage truck in Virginia. Full story:...
January 26, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, January 25, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of its ongoing investigation into the Dec. 18, 2017, derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in DuPont, Washington, the National Transportation Safety Board...
January 16, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: Minot Daily News, January 13, 2018) HEIMDAL, N.D. — A broken wheel led to the derailment of six of the 107 loaded tank cars carrying crude oil on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train May 6, 2015, near Heimdal, in Wells County, according to a recently released...
