May 20, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains Magazine Online, May 19, 2016) After focusing blame on the engineer of a Northeast Corridor train that took a curve too fast and derailed, killing eight passengers, the National Transportation Safety Board is now under fire from safety experts, the...
May 18, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer editorial, May 18, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — The most effective precaution against lapses such as Bostian’s has been so clear for so long that the NTSB has been pushing it for more than 45 years. A technology known as positive train...
May 18, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, May 18, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Victims of last year’s deadly Amtrak derailment aren’t buying the findings of federal investigators that the train’s engineer likely lost his bearings because he was distracted by an...
May 18, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — There’s someone out there who threw the rock. On May 12, 2015 someone threw a projectile that hit a SEPTA train. Officials are now saying that act may have set in motion a hideous Rube Goldberg-like...
May 18, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — he engineer who derailed an Amtrak train lost his bearings shortly before he accelerated into a dangerous Philadelphia curve last year, likely because he was distracted by radio talk about a SEPTA train...
May 18, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, May 17, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The May 2015 derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia was the result of a loss of situational awareness by the train’s engineer after his attention was diverted to an...
May 17, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CBS New York, May 17, 2016) NEW YORK — The National Transportation Safety Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday to detail the probable cause of last year’s deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia. The cause won’t be determined officially until the NTSB votes...
May 12, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, May 11, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — Federal investigators will meet next week to detail the probable cause of last year’s fatal Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia. The National Transportation Safety Board’s meeting Tuesday in...
May 4, 2016 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, May 3, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A short circuit on Washington’s Metrorail system that caused thick smoke to fill a stranded train, killing one passenger and injuring 91 people on Jan. 12, 2015, was the...
April 8, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: USA Today, April 7, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Amtrak derailment in Kansas last month that sent 28 people to the hospital occurred where track damage was traced to a grain truck, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. Full story: USA...
