October 16, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Connecticut Post, October 15, 2013) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A hearing that was supposed to examine two Metro-North accidents on the New Haven Line, including the May 17 derailment and collision in Bridgeport, has been postponed because of the federal government...
October 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: ABC News Chicago, October 4, 2013) CHICAGO — The CTA sent a bulletin Thursday night to all rail yard employees ordering a number of precautionary steps to ensure that train cars undergoing maintenance stay in place. The bulletin comes after an out-of service...
October 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: CBS Chicago, October 4, 2013) CHICAGO — The National Transportation Safety Board and CTA investigators have virtually ruled out sabotage in their investigation into the cause of Monday’s CTA Blue Line collision involving a runaway train that was...
October 3, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2013) CHICAGO — Federal railroad experts investigating this week’s Blue Line crash said Wednesday their early findings have led them to consider emergency recommendations to the CTA, a move that would signal concerns of a...
October 1, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2013) CHICAGO — Investigators face a daunting challenge to sort out the bizarre half-mile journey of an out-of-service, possibly driverless CTA “ghost train” that breached multiple safeguards before colliding with...
September 25, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Hartford Courant, September 24, 2013) HARTFORD, Conn. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold two investigative hearings in October to examine two Metro-North railroad accidents earlier this year. On May 17th, more than 70 people were injured,...
September 24, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 24, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today released the preliminary agenda for the investigative hearing on two recent Metro-North train accidents: the May 17, 2013...
September 18, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Opinion column by Robert L. Sumwalt, a NTSB board member, published in the Los Angeles Times on September 13, 2013) LOS ANGELES — Positive train control must be implemented by the deadline of the law. We hope that five years from now, we are celebrating the...
September 12, 2013 | Canada, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, September 11, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is a statement by NTSB Acting Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman: “Earlier today, our colleagues at the Transportation Safety Board of Canada issued...
September 4, 2013 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, September 3, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was an accident investigators say didn’t have to happen: Five years ago a commuter train collided head-on with a freight train near Los Angeles, killing 25 and injuring more than 100. Technology is...
