Last week's Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia that killed 8 people has re-ignited the call for a nationwide network of “positive train control” systems. Voices have been clamoring about whether or not ...

After a Metrolink passenger train with an engineer text-messaging at the controls slammed into a freight train in Chatsworth in 2008, killing 25 people and injuring 135, Congress finally passed a law ...

It was late afternoon on September 22nd, 2008 when a four-car Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a 17-car Union Pacific freight train just outside Chatsworth, California. The sound of ...

A computer-based system designed to prevent train accidents has been stalled by high costs and technological hurdles. It was not being used by the train that derailed Monday in Washington state, ...

Although there has been a recent rash of passenger train accidents, the number of accidents involving Amtrak is trending downward. The company has even gone so far as to install the latest so-called ...

The location may be near Philadelphia, but the story is tragically familiar to anyone in Southern California who commutes by rail: After a deadly derailment -- this one of an Amtrak train apparently ...

Positive Train Control is a collision-avoidance system required by Congress in the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Lawmakers enacted the requirement after the head-on collision between a ...

A Facebook post with a picture of a positive control for a COVID-19 test misleadingly describes it as a positive test kit and suggests it may be “preloaded with the virus”. The post (here) shows a ...

Thirteen people who were in direct contact with the rabid dog have started post-exposure treatment and had not displayed any ...