The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Jan. 30 released a preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the Dec. 18, 2024, Union Pacific (UP) train collision with a highway vehicle at a highway-railroad grade crossing Pecos, Texas.
Alvin Brown, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member and former mayor of Jacksonville, Fla. (2011-15), has been designated by President Joe Biden to serve as NTSB Vice Chairman, the independent safety
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Nov. 21 released the final report for its investigation of the April 16, 2023, Union Pacific (UP) train collision with a parked UP train in Chico Yard
The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) ongoing investigation of the Oct. 14, 2024, accident involving an Alstom employee operating the southbound NJ Transit light rail vehicle (LRV) 207 who was killed will focus on “NJ Transit’s right-of-way maintenance and inspection practices, dispatcher reporting procedures, and the crashworthiness of the LRV’s design,” the agency reported Nov. 7 during the release of its preliminary report.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Oct. 29 released the final report for its investigation of the Sept. 17, 2023, accident involving a CSX mechanical department employee who was struck and killed by a
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced that it is issuing a regulation to make transit workers safer, nationwide, by mandating standards to protect them while working on transit railways.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Sept. 24 released an illustrated digest of its investigation into the 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern (NS) freight train carrying hazardous materials in East
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Sept. 25 released the final report for its investigation of the March 9, 2023, derailment of a Norfolk Southern (NS) train on the Alabama East End District
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Sept. 24 issued the final report for its investigation of a Aug. 6, 2023, accident, in which a CSX Transportation conductor trainee was fatally injured during switching
The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) ongoing investigation of the Aug. 27, 2024, accident involving a Norfolk Southern (NS) conductor seriously injured while coupling railcars at a Virginia yard will focus on “additional interviews, NS policies and
