July 27, 2017
Federal investigators have concluded that a fiery crash between a commuter train and an SUV that killed six people in the suburbs in 2015 was extra deadly because of an unusual rail design, a U.S. official told The Associated Press …
February 18, 2015
The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are “accidents waiting to happen,” two U.S. senators said Sunday. Sens. Charles Schumer and Richard Blumenthal spoke at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, the departure point for the Metro-North train …
February 10, 2015
It was a hellish scenario investigators had never seen before: 400 feet of electrified third rail snapped into 12 pieces and speared a commuter train during a fiery collision with an SUV. Now officials want to know whether the rail’s …
September 17, 2014
Four of 28 people who sued the Metro-North Railroad in federal court after being injured in a Bridgeport, Conn., train crash last year have settled with the commuter railroad. Lawyers in the case say the four passengers reached agreements with …