October 6, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, October 3, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today opened the accident dockets on two on-going Metro-North Railroad accident investigations and placed the dockets on its...
September 25, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 18, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 11, 2012, at 2:03 a.m. eastern daylight time, eastbound Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) freight train 186L809 derailed 17 cars on the NS Sandusky District at...
September 25, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 24, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a special investigation report on the recent increase in deaths of railroad and rail transit roadway workers on or...
August 28, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Washington Post, August 28, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michael Flanigon says his life has been preoccupied by train wrecks. As a railroad investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Flanigon oversees the teams that go to the scene of train...
August 27, 2014 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2014) BALTIMORE, Md. — The only signs investigators found of the chemical-laden railroad hopper car that exploded after it derailed last year in Rosedale were twisted and deformed pieces of its aluminum shell that shot out like...
August 27, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: South Jersey Times, August 26, 2014) PAULSBORO, N.J. — The National Transportation Safety Board released its full report Tuesday on the Nov. 30, 2012 Conrail train derailment and chemical release in the borough, including multiple recommendations regarding...
August 25, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Washington Post, August 23, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After almost two years of investigation into a 2012 train derailment in Ellicott City, Md., the National Transportation Safety Board said a piece of rail near replacement age simply snapped under the weight...
August 1, 2014 | CSX, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, July 31, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The derailment of a CSX coal train on a railroad bridge in Ellicott City, Md., on August 20, 2012 was caused by a broken rail with evidence of rolling contact fatigue, the...
July 30, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, July 29, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today the probable cause of a derailment at Paulsboro Bridge in New Jersey, which resulted in a hazardous material...
July 30, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: South Jersey Times, July 29, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Failures at every level, from both Conrail and first responders, contributed to a dangerous situation during the Paulsboro train derailment and chemical spill in 2012, but the probable cause of the...
