February 15, 2012 | CN, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 14, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today determined that the washout of a track structure and the failure to notify an oncoming train of the washout in...
February 10, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 10, 2012) WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a Board meeting to determine the probable cause on the June 19, 2009, train derailment in Cherry Valley,...
January 13, 2012 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: NTSB press release, January 12, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today issued two safety recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) related to five rear-end collisions in which crewmembers failed to...
December 29, 2011 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, December 16, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an overall downward trend in transportation fatalities in the United States, estimates for 2010 released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today...
December 29, 2011 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, December 16, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an overall downward trend in transportation fatalities in the United States, estimates for 2010 released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today...
December 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 27, 2011) RENO, Nev. — Nevada Highway Patrol officials say they have nearly completed a report on a deadly Amtrak crash in Nevada and intend to submit it to federal investigators in the next couple of weeks. Full story: Sacramento...
December 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, December 27, 2011) RENO, Nev. — Nevada Highway Patrol officials say they have nearly completed a report on a deadly Amtrak crash in Nevada and intend to submit it to federal investigators in the next couple of weeks. Full story: Sacramento...
December 20, 2011 | BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The Eagle, December 20, 2011) COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The circumstances that led a conductor to be outside a moving train before he fell to his death in Grimes County remained under investigation late Monday by federal and railroad officials. The night...
December 20, 2011 | BNSF, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: The Eagle, December 20, 2011) COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The circumstances that led a conductor to be outside a moving train before he fell to his death in Grimes County remained under investigation late Monday by federal and railroad officials. The night...
November 30, 2011 | Headlines, NTSB
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, November 29, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Robert L. Sumwalt was sworn in today for his second five-year term as a Board member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Nominated by President Obama, his term...
