Two companies battling for a share of more than $14 billion in mandated safety upgrades on U.S. railroads are set...
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Federal safety investigators on Tuesday questioned transportation officials about last year’s Amtrak train derailment south of Seattle that killed three...
New Jersey Transit had installed a federally mandated emergency braking system on less than 10 percent of its fleet of...
The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Washington state last month that killed three people may have been prevented...
The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost: none of...
A Washington community along the new rail line where an Amtrak train derailed in a deadly crash had tried to...
The deadly Amtrak crash in Washington state marked the railroad’s third fatal accident in as many years, putting the passenger...
Many commuter and freight railroads have made little progress installing safety technology designed to prevent deadly collisions and derailments despite...
President Barack Obama plans to enforce a deadline for rail operators to install safety technology by the end of the...

Only a small number of U.S. railroads will meet the Dec. 31 deadline for implementing new train safety technology that...