January 12, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, January 11, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued four railroad related safety recommendations in concert with the agency’s publication of two railroad accident briefs...
January 12, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: Forum News Service, January 11, 2018) HEIMDAL, N.D. — The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final accident report and safety recommendations nearly three years after a fiery oil tanker train crash in north-central North Dakota that spilled...
January 5, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Positive Train Control
(Source: Reuters, January 4, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The damage from a deadly Amtrak train crash in Washington state in December topped $40.4 million, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report on Thursday. The safety board also said...
January 3, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, December 22, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board released Friday details gathered from the locomotive event data recorder and inward- and outward-facing cameras on Amtrak...
January 27, 2017 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The News Journal, January 26, 2017) WILMINGTON, Del. — Miscommunication between workers and unfamiliarity with safety procedures may have contributed to an Amtrak passenger train hitting a backhoe on the railroad tracks in Chester, Pa, killing two workers,...
January 11, 2017 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: www.nj.com, January 8, 2017) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez asked the National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday to review how railroads were taking steps to address sleep apnea, which could have contributed to last...
January 6, 2017 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: New York Times, January 5, 2017) NEW YORK — A Long Island Rail Road train that crashed in Brooklyn on Wednesday was going approximately 10 miles per hour when it ran into a train station, injuring more than 100 people, federal investigators said on Thursday....
January 5, 2017 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: www.nj.com, January 5, 2017) NEWARK, N.J. — Despite the crash Wednesday of a Long Island Rail Road train that injured more than 100 people, commuters are still safer onboard an LIRR train than one from NJ Transit, according to federal stats. Neither carrier,...
January 5, 2017 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: AM New York, January 5, 2017) NEW YORK — The investigation into what caused the LIRR train to crash into the bumping block at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal on Wednesday could take days, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Full story: AM New...
January 3, 2017 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: The Dickinson Press, December 29, 2016) CASSELTON, N.D. — It’s been three years since a train derailment near here triggered an explosion that sent a massive fireball into the sky, highlighting the dangers of moving crude oil by rail. Full story: The...
