Hard-to-detect braking system defects have rendered Canada’s aging fleet of grain hoppers a safety hazard, says a former director of derailment investigations for the country’s Transportation Safety ...

BISMARCK — An ex-BNSF Railway worker claims he was fired because he blew the whistle on emergency brake failures for coal trains in North Dakota and testified a coworker was injured on the job due to ...

Norfolk Southern has filed a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of federal railroad safety regulations regarding refresher ...

DUPONT, Wash. (AP) - Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an ...

LOS ANGELES — Investigators say the commuter-train engineer in Friday’s deadly rail collision in Los Angeles did not hit the brakes before crashing into a freight train. The National Transportation ...

The brakes of the commuter train that barreled into a New Jersey station last month were working properly, according to a federal report released Thursday. While some of the equipment on the NJ ...

A C train suffered a mechanical failure last year and overshot a platform in Harlem — one stop away from this week’s derailment, the MTA admitted in response to a $25 million lawsuit filed by a woman ...

The engineer whose commuter train struck an oncoming freight train in Los Angeles last week did not hit the brakes moments before the crash and was in the midst of an 11½-hour split shift when he ran ...

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