January 24, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: New York Times, January 23, 2014) NEW YORK — In a joint move that highlighted growing concerns about the safety of crude oil transportation by rail, officials from the United States and Canada issued a series of recommendations on Thursday, including...
January 17, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: NTSB press release, January 17, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today released its 2014 Most Wanted List, the top 10 advocacy and awareness priorities for the agency for 2014, which for the first time includes improving...
January 15, 2014 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, January 14, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today released a preliminary report on its investigation into the December 1, 2013 Metro-North Railroad accident that...
January 9, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CSN Philadelphia, January 8, 2014) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Two sheriff’s department employees filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the rail company ignored red light signals when the company’s freight train derailed, spilling a hazardous chemical in the southern...
January 8, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, January 8, 2014) BISMARCK, N.D. — U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she and a representative of Sen. John Hoeven’s office met with a National Transportation Safety Board leader to discuss the recent derailment of an oil train on the...
December 20, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, December 19, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday issued two “urgent” safety recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration as part of its ongoing...
December 10, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) press release, December 9, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board’s go-team will leave New York City this week after completing the necessary on-scene investigative work into the...
December 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, December 3, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today removed the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, or ACRE, as a participant in its investigation into the December 1...
December 2, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 2, 2013) NEW YORK — A member of the National Transportation Board says a second data recorder has been retrieved from the train involved in a fatal New York City derailment. The crash Sunday killed four people and injured more than...
November 26, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, November 26, 2013) PAULSBORO, N.J. — U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews called Monday for more vigorous, independent oversight of railroads, nearly a year after a train derailment in Paulsboro caused the release of a toxic chemical and forced...
