The LIRR has begun using a new kind of signaling system it says is less prone to problems, but the head of the railroad’s engineers’ union is raising concerns about the signals because they provide ...

CAYCE, S.C. --Railway signals were out while crews installed a safety system that could have prevented the exact type of crash that killed two people in South Carolina when an Amtrak train was ...

A maintenance crew working on a railway in South Carolina on Sunday had disabled its signal system to install new technology meant to prevent crashes when an Amtrak train slammed into a freight ...

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP — The driver of a Dodge Dakota pickup truck involved in a crash with a train along the local stretch of Ind. 149 last week disregarded safety signals, according to the Porter County ...

The title of Larry Light’s “PTC vs. Legacy Train Control” article in the June 2016 issue of Railway Age (full text follows this article) promised a balanced discussion of the differences between newer ...

Investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia last May have ruled out issues with the locomotive, track or train signals as causes, an official with the National Transportation ...

SCOTT COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - Fatigue was the likely cause of a catastrophic train crash in Scott County in May 2013. That's according to a report just released by the National Transportation Safety Board ...

ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - The National Transportation and Safety Board is sharing new details over a month after a train derailed in Pecos, killing two. This is an update to the preliminary information ...