December 5, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: NBC, December 4, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The deadly crash of a New York commuter train that hurtled into a steep curve at 82 mph could make it more difficult for railroads to fight a federal deadline to install technology designed in part to avert high-speed...
December 5, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: New York Times, December 4, 2013) NEW YORK — Wherever the Metro-North investigation leads, the ultimate blame for this tragedy seems to be a deficit of money and political will, and years of wasted time. While positive train control is a complex and costly...
December 4, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Chicago Tribune, December 3, 2013) CHICAGO — The deadly commuter train crash in New York reinforces the urgency for Metra and other commuter railroads across the country to install a federally mandated safety system designed to prevent such wrecks. Full...
December 3, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, December 2, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — They keep the roads clean, plowed and safe, and now they have Teamster representation to secure their working conditions. The staff with the Newbury Highway Department...
November 19, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Stamford Advocate, November 17, 2013) STAMFORD, Conn. — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Siemens Rail Automation and Bombardier Transportation Rail Control Solutions a contract worth up to $428 million to install a system on Metro-North...
November 13, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Reuters, November 12, 2013) HOUSTON, Texas — General Electric Co. is trying to deploy more of its natural gas engines on rigs drilling for hydrocarbons in the North American energy boom, where Caterpillar Inc. diesel engines have long been the industry...
November 4, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Reuters, November 3, 2013) LONDON — Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad captured headlines earlier this year when it announced it would start trialling trains powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). But even a pilot programme is...
October 25, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, October 24, 2013) NEW YORK — On Sept. 12, 2008, a Los Angeles commuter train collided with an oncoming freight train, killing 25 people and injuring more than 100. Federal investigators found the operator was texting while driving the...
October 23, 2013 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Bloomberg News, October 21, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two years probably wasn’t going to be enough time for railroads to install crash-avoidance technology on 23,000 locomotives and 60,000 miles of tracks, in the biggest rail-safety project in U.S. history....
October 14, 2013 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Hartford Courant, October 13, 2013) HARTFORD, Conn. — Shelved years ago, a plan that suggested powering Metro-North with fuel cells rather than commercial power is finding renewed attention after a failed transmission cable crippled the rail line last month....
