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It meant that before the train reached it, that section of track would need to be moved into the correct position. But none of the crew members were in a position to easily flip the switch: The ...

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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on March 31 again called for additional backup safety defenses—“i.e., physical fail-safe train controls”—in signaled territory, following its ...

San Francisco’s normally predictable N-Judah light rail line became a scene of pandemonium one September morning when a drowsy train operator seemingly nodded off at the controls. Passengers were sent ...

LOS ANGELES -- -- LOS ANGELES -- During the evening rush hour on March 25 in Massachusetts, a runaway freight car weighing 112 tons hurtled down toward a commuter train loaded with 300 passengers. As ...

The Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. of New York and New Jersey is planning to modernize its signal system to add automatic train control capabilities. An analysis said that digitally encoded audio ...