December 11, 2012 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 11, 2012) RENO, Nev. — The National Transportation Safety Board is ready to determine who or what’s to blame for last year’s fatal crash between a truck and an Amtrak train that left six people dead at a rural crossing...
December 11, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 2012) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Paulsboro public schools are to reopen Tuesday morning, more than a week after they were closed because of the Nov. 30 derailment of freight-train tank cars carrying toxic chemicals. Full story:...
December 10, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 10, 2012) PAULSBORO, N.J. — Workers are continuing to remove debris at the scene of a New Jersey freight train derailment that released hazardous gas into the air. Seven cars on an 84-car train derailed on or near a swivel-style...
December 7, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 7, 2012) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Coast Guard said Thursday that it had removed all traces of vinyl chloride from a freight-train tanker that fell off a bridge and breached last Friday, and that it had not detected the hazardous...
December 6, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Reuters, December 5, 2012) SAN ANGELO, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday it had yet to interview the driver of a truck carrying U.S. military veterans that was struck by a train in a fatal accident in Texas, and added it may...
December 6, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 6, 2012) PAULSBORO, N.J. — Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other freight train-line infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to rail line owners to do it themselves. After a derailment that...
December 5, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 5, 2012) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Authorities evacuated about 100 more homes in Paulsboro on Tuesday in response to elevated levels of vinyl chloride in the area surrounding Friday’s train derailment, which already had sent...
December 4, 2012 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 2012) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The freight train derailment last week in Paulsboro likely was the result of human mistakes (overriding a red stop signal), money-saving automation (replacing a human bridge operator with an...
November 28, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Odessa American, November 28, 2012) MIDLAND, Texas — The last of the federal officials investigating the tragic train crash into a veterans’ parade in Midland left on Tuesday, but they had yet to interview the driver of a truck that the veterans and their...
November 19, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(Source: New York Times, November 18, 2012) MIDLAND, Texas — Federal officials investigating the collision of a train and a truck that killed four people at a parade here said Saturday that the vehicle carrying veterans and their spouses tried to cross the tracks...
