September 17, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Daisy Nguyen on September 16.) LOS ANGELES — Investigators on Tuesday were conducting a test to determine when the engineers of two trains were able to see each other in the moments before a head-on crash that...
September 15, 2008 | Accident, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Gillian Flaccus on September 14.) LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators on Sunday combed railroad tracks and crushed wreckage looking for evidence to explain the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in 15 years...
September 2, 2008 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The following story by Larissa Theodore appeared on the New Brighton Times website on August 31.) NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. — Big Rock Park in New Brighton was heavily damaged in 2006 when Norfolk Southern Railway Co. cars carrying ethanol tumbled from a trestle along the...
July 29, 2008 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 28.) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently determined a Norfolk Southern Railway derailment that occurred in New Brighton, Pa., in October 2006 was caused by an inadequate rail...
June 11, 2008 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following appeared at abc7chicago.com on June 10.) CHICAGO — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its final report on the Metra accident in Elmwood Park in November of 2005 that injured 16 people. No one was killed when the train crashed into cars...
June 4, 2008 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Noah Bierman appeared on the Boston Globe website on June 3.) BOSTON — Investigators who re-created the route taken by the Green Line train that crashed in Newton last week determined that the driver’s view would not have been blocked by...
May 29, 2008 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Steve LeBlanc on May 29.) NEWTON, Mass. — Federal investigators arrived Thursday at the tracks outside Boston where two commuter trains collided and derailed during rush hour a day earlier, trapping and killing a...
May 14, 2008 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The following story by Gregory Richards appeared on The Virginian-Pilot website on May 14.) NORFOLK Va. — Federal investigators on Tuesday pinned the blame for the 2006 derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp. ethanol train in New Brighton, Pa., on an...
May 9, 2008 | Headlines, NS, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following on May 8.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 9:30 a.m., in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant...
March 31, 2008 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Noah Bierman appeared on the Boston Globe website on March 31. George Newman is Chairman of the BLET’s Massachusetts State Legislative Board.) BOSTON — Just about everyone involved with last week’s commuter train crash in Canton that...
