Items Tagged with 'railroad safety'

Program was created by the IIJA.

Safety board faults Sound Transit for failing to have "effective mitigation" for hazardous curve that lacked operating train-control safety system.

Freight railroads have positive train control systems on 60% of their route miles, passenger lines lag, at  25%.

A prolonged short circuit in the third-rail power system of Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail system has been determined to be the probable cause for a January 2015 electrical arcing and smoke incident that killed one passenger and injured dozens more, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).