Norfolk Southern has filed a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of federal railroad safety regulations regarding refresher ...

Hard-to-detect braking system defects have rendered Canada’s aging fleet of grain hoppers a safety hazard, says a former director of derailment investigations for the country’s Transportation Safety ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined Metrolink officials on Monday for a preview of ‘Positive Train Control,' a new braking system designed to automatically stop or slow a train before a ...

BISMARCK — An ex-BNSF Railway worker claims he was fired because he blew the whistle on emergency brake failures for coal trains in North Dakota and testified a coworker was injured on the job due to ...

SEPTA showed members of Congress and the media its new automatic braking system — Positive Train Control. The safety system would most likely have prevented the fatal Amtrak crash at Frankford ...