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 ...

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 Amtrak passenger train didn't have a safety technology called the positive train control activated at the time it derailed in Washington state, said Richard Anderson, the rail service's president ...

KING 5's Mimi Jung goes over "positive train control", a safety feature that could have prevented the Amtrak derailment in DuPont.

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., ...