Federal experts will spend the next two months examining safety compliance and safety culture at a commuter railroad that operated...
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Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they’ve been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train...

The New York State’s Department of Transportation lacked records to show adequate and updated safety plans and inspections for many...
It’s sometimes called highway hypnosis or white-line fever, and it’s familiar to anyone who has driven long distances along a...
U.S. transportation officials ordered the Metro-North Railroad last Friday to quickly overhaul its signal system and temporarily put an extra...
The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been...
For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely...
The deadly train derailment in New York City may force railroads to install automatic brakes by 2015 and dash industry...
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has a wholly owned insurance subsidiary, a captive insurer called the First Mutual Transportation...
Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three...