The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday.Federal Railroad ...
National Transportation Safety Board investigators say Positive Train Control — a system of satellites, communication towers and complex software that makes sure trains' safely follow their routes — ...
Trains have been delayed on every Metra commuter line in the Chicago area during the Tuesday evening rush, due to a positive train control system outage. Metra officials said, beginning around 5 p.m., ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra has resolved a system-wide outage impacting safety technology, and trains are operating with delays on Tuesday evening. A Metra spokesperson said a positive train control outage ...
CONTRACTED TO INSTALL FEDERALLY MANDATED SAFETY SYSTEMS ON THE COMMUTER RAIL IS NOW SUING THE MBTA. A HITACHI RAIL IS ACCUSING THE MBTA OF REQUIRING EXTRA WORK BEYOND THEIR CONTRACT AND THEN REFUSING ...
The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost – critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active before the train ...
Amtrak has 456 miles of track covered using positive train control, a system that automatically can stop a train if it is speeding.Jan. 13, 2016 © 2025 NBCUniversal ...
Metra commuters could face significant delays during the Wednesday evening rush due to a systemwide positive train control issue.