July 27, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines, NTSB
(The following article by Ana Radelat was posted on the Jackson Clarion-Ledger website on July 27.) WASHINGTON — Poor track maintenance caused last year’s fatal Amtrak derailment near Flora, Miss., a National Transportation Safety Board report released...
July 22, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on July 22.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker testified yesterday before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,...
June 7, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following article by Tony Lystra was posted on the Longview Daily News website on June 7.) LONGVIEW, Wash. — The National Transportation Safety Board is not expected to determine the cause of a 2003 train wreck near Carrolls Bluff until fall, a spokeswoman...
May 19, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Ana Radelat appeared on the Clarion-Ledger website on May 19.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators are nearly finished with their probe of a fatal Amtrak derailment near Flora last year after interviewing dozens of passengers,...
April 28, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 27.) WASHINGTON — Safety officials are questioning whether railroads and the government are doing enough to make sure engineers and conductors are sufficiently alert to operate trains. The National...
April 28, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The following story by Karisa King appeared on the San Antonio Express-News website on April 28.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal law that requires railroad companies to relieve workers for at least eight hours between shifts fails to guarantee that crews get...
April 27, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB, UP
(The following article by Karisa King was posted on the San Antonio Express-News website on April 27. Brother Heath Pape was a member of BLET Division 197 in San Antonio, Texas.) WASHINGTON — By the time Union Pacific engineer Art Cadena took the helm of the...
April 7, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on April 6.) WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day public hearing on the 2004 Macdona, Texas, accident involving a collision between Union Pacific...
April 6, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 6.) BALTIMORE — The city has requested an additional week to respond to a federal report on the train derailment in the Howard Street tunnel in 2001, a city official said Tuesday. The National...
April 1, 2005 | Headlines, NTSB
(The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on April 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Carol J. Carmody has announced that she is leaving the National Transportation Safety Board after nearly 5 years as a Member. Her last day on the Board is...
