The Metro-North commuter railroad has a loose approach to safety that is evident from inadequate track inspection to poor training to employees’ inappropriate use of cellphones, a federal agency said Friday. The Federal Railroad Administration said Metro-North, which connects New …
Federal experts will spend the next two months examining safety compliance and safety culture at a commuter railroad that operated a train that derailed and killed four people this month. The effort will assess a broad range of practices at …
Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they’ve been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train derailment that killed four people in New York. The National Transportation Safety Board said a tool called positive train control …
The Metro-North Railroad has until Tuesday to identify places in its system with major speed changes under an order from federal transportation officials requiring an extra worker in the driver’s cab on routes like the one where a speeding commuter …
The engineer driving the speeding commuter train that derailed in New York City last weekend, killing four people, has been suspended without pay, a railroad spokesman said Thursday. William Rockefeller is “out of service, and not being paid,” the spokesman …