U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urged the nation’s railroads and transit agencies to take all possible measures to meet deadlines...
railroad safety News
The investigative arm of the U.S. Congress is launching a probe into the safety of increasingly long freight trains being...
A federal safety official called on the rail industry to move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers following a fiery...
Many commuter and freight railroads have made little progress installing safety technology designed to prevent deadly collisions and derailments despite...
The Amtrak engineer at the controls of a speeding train that derailed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was...
Only a small number of U.S. railroads will meet the Dec. 31 deadline for implementing new train safety technology that...
The Obama administration on Wednesday released a new regulation intended to prevent explosive rail disasters such as the 2013 oil...
The union for Amtrak’s locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls...
Six passengers on an Amtrak train that derailed May 12 in Philadelphia, killing eight and injuring more than 200, sued...
Federal regulators ordered Amtrak, the U.S. passenger rail service, to immediately improve safety on its Northeast Corridor route from Washington...