China Launches Safety Campaign After Deadly Train Crash
China’s rail minister, facing public outrage over Saturday’s deadly train crash, has ordered a two-month safety review of railway operations and apologized for the accident which killed 39 people,...
View ArticleKansas Failing to Reduce Train-Related Deaths
The number of people killed in train-related accidents in Kansas has remained steady in the past 20 years although there has been a dramatic decrease in such fatalities nationwide, according to federal...
View ArticleNew York Metro-North Derailment Puts Spotlight on Rail Safety
A deadly derailment on a curve in Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line rekindled safety concerns and promised to snarl today’s commute for thousands of riders on one of New York’s major mass-transit...
View ArticleNew York Metro-North Becomes Inquiry Magnet After Held Up as Rail Model
Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three federal safety investigations, and explaining to officials and...
View ArticleMTA’s Captive Insurer FMTAC Comments on Coverages for Train Derailment
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has a wholly owned insurance subsidiary, a captive insurer called the First Mutual Transportation Assurance Company (FMTAC), that will provide...
View ArticleMetro-North Crash Seen Thwarting Delay of Automatic Braking
The deadly train derailment in New York City may force railroads to install automatic brakes by 2015 and dash industry efforts to put off adding the technology by five years. The Metro-North Railroad...
View ArticleAnalysis: 2 Factors Key to Lawsuits Over New York Train Crash
For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or...
View ArticleNew York Train Wreck Engineer Suspended Without Pay
The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been suspended without pay, a railroad spokesman said Thursday.William Rockefeller...
View ArticleAfter Derailment, Feds Order Changes at New York Railway
U.S. transportation officials ordered the Metro-North Railroad last Friday to quickly overhaul its signal system and temporarily put an extra worker in the driver’s cab on some routes that have major...
View ArticleNew York Train Wreck Could Be Case of Highway Hypnosis
It’s sometimes called highway hypnosis or white-line fever, and it’s familiar to anyone who has driven long distances along a monotonous route.Drivers are lulled into a semi-trance state and reach...
View ArticleAudit Targets Safety on New York State Railroad Bridges
The New York State’s Department of Transportation lacked records to show adequate and updated safety plans and inspections for many railroad bridges statewide, according to an audit being released by...
View ArticleNTSB: Technology Upgrade Likely Could Have Prevented N.Y. Train Derailment
Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they’ve been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train derailment that killed four people in New York.The National...
View ArticleFeds to Examine New York’s Metro-North Railroad for 2 Months
Federal experts will spend the next two months examining safety compliance and safety culture at a commuter railroad that operated a train that derailed and killed four people this month.The effort...
View ArticleFederal Report: N.Y. Metro-North Railroad Allowed Safety to Erode
The second-largest U.S. commuter railroad allowed safety to erode while pushing to keep its trains on time, resulting in a lax culture of inadequate inspections, poor training and inappropriate...
View ArticleReport: Federal Inspectors Found 7,100 Metro-North Defects Over Last Decade
A Connecticut newspaper reports that federal inspectors found more than 7,100 defects and deficiencies in the Metro-North Railroad over the last decade, but records show regulators launched an...
View ArticleMetro-North Railroad Says Most Safety Upgrades Are Complete
Metro-North Railroad, the nation’s second-largest commuter rail system, on Wednesday released a final report on what it has done to improve safety following a series of accidents last year and said it...
View ArticleN.J. Senator Calls for More Railroad Safety Standards
A U.S. senator from New Jersey is calling for tougher penalties for railroads that violate safety rules among other changes he’s proposing to try to prevent accidents involving hazardous materials....
View ArticleCleanup at Arkansas Train Crash Site Ongoing
An important highway in northeast Arkansas could stay closed into next week as crews clean up the wreckage left from a head-on train collision, a highway official said. Two railroad workers were killed...
View ArticleNTSB Releases Its Final Report on 2012 N.J. Freight Train Derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on systemic flaws leading up to a 2012 train derailment that leaked a dangerous gas in southern New Jersey. The report issued...
View ArticleLawmakers Discuss Merging New Jersey Transit, Other Agencies
Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed the idea of merging embattled New Jersey Transit with other state agencies to save money to use for road, bridge and rail projects, and heard from experts about safety...
View ArticleFatal Amtrak Crash in Washington State Stirs Safety Debate in D.C.
The deadly Amtrak crash in Washington state marked the railroad’s third fatal accident in as many years, putting the passenger rail operator under fresh scrutiny less than a month after safety...
View ArticleBHP Forced to Derail Runaway Iron Ore Train in Australia
BHP Billiton Ltd. was forced to derail a runaway train that traveled almost 60 miles without a driver across the Pilbara, a major iron ore producing area in Western Australia. The world’s top mining...
View ArticleBHP’s Western Australia Iron Ore Train Derailment Will Take Week to Recover
BHP Billiton Ltd. expects to take about a week to recover from the derailment of one of its iron ore trains that’s halted its rail operations in Western Australia, potentially bolstering prices of the...
View ArticleBHP Expects Interruption to Australia Iron Ore Exports After Train Derailment
Mining giant BHP Billiton expects some interruption to its Australian iron ore exports after a nearly 3-km-long train loaded with the commodity was forcibly derailed this week after running away en...
View ArticleDerailment of BHP Iron Ore Train Exposes Australia’s Reliance on Private...
A network of private railroads more than three times the length of the New York subway system is the key lifeline for Australia’s A$61.3 billion ($44.5 billion) iron ore export industry. So when...
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