November 17, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, November 14, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a meeting to discuss the special investigation report on safety issues identified in five Metro-North accidents that...
November 17, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, November 14, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a meeting to discuss the special investigation report on safety issues identified in five Metro-North accidents that...
November 5, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: News On 6, November 4, 2014) TULSA, Okla. — The conductor on an Arkansas & Missouri rescue locomotive going to assist a stalled excursion train on October 16, 2014 in western Arkansas jumped just before it slammed head-on into the disabled train,...
October 30, 2014 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The Journal News, October 29, 2014) NEW YORK — An Amtrak signal maintainer was killed in a railroad accident in Columbia County on Wednesday, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Full story: www.lohud.com
October 29, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: New York Times, October 28, 2014) NEW YORK — Three senators and a top federal safety official delivered a blistering critique on Tuesday of the Metro-North Railroad and regulators in Washington for lapses in maintenance and oversight that led to five...
October 29, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 28, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its investigation of five Metro-North accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board identified several recurring safety issues, including inadequate and...
October 28, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CBS New York, October 28, 2014) NEW YORK — The National Transportation Safety Board said it would announce “probable causes” today for the Dec. 1 derailment of a Metro-North train that killed four people in the Bronx and four other Metro-North accidents in...
October 23, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The Journal News, October 23, 2014) NEW YORK — The break in a bar joining railroad tracks that derailed a Metro-North train in Bridgeport, Connecticut last year, causing an accident that injured dozens, came not long after other joint bars had broken in the...
October 23, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 22, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the May 28, 2013 train/truck collision, 15-car derailment, and subsequent explosion in Rosedale, Md. was...
October 22, 2014 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Baltimore Sun, October 21, 2014) BALTIMORE, Md. — CSX Transportation and Alban Waste LLC have reached a confidential settlement in a lawsuit brought by the railroad after an Alban truck collided with a CSX freight train in Rosedale in 2013. An accident...
