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 ...

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 ...

Since Tuesday's harrowing Amtrak crash just outside Philadelphia, which left eight people dead, everybody's been looking for answers as to what exactly went wrong. And amid all the conversation, there ...

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 ...

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, ...

No matter what caused Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 to derail as it rounded a bend in Philadelphia, it looks like technology could have prevented the crash, a top transportation official said. A ...

Officials have said that an Amtrak train that derailed this week in Washington state, leaving three people dead, was travelling 50 mph over the speed limit, and that the line did not have "positive ...

The Amtrak passenger train didn’t have a safety technology called the positive train control activated at the time it derailed in Washington state, said Richard Anderson, the rail service’s president ...

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

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 ...

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 ...