(Source: The State, February 15, 2018)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Eleven days after a fatal train wreck in Cayce, the National Transportation Safety Board issued an urgent safety recommendation Thursday that calls on trains to proceed cautiously when moving through areas without signals to warn them of problems ahead. The safety recommendation asks the Federal Railroad Administration to issue an emergency order directing trains to operate at restricted speeds if signals aren’t working, even if railroad crews have reported that a switch ahead is in the correct position. After a train moves through at substantially slower speeds, the train crew must verify to a dispatcher that the switch was in the right position as the train passed by. Once the switch is verified to be in the right position, later trains can proceed at normal speeds, according to the recommendation.
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