Investigators seek answers in fatal New Jersey train crash
By DAKE KANG and MICHAEL R. SISAK HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to determine what happened before a commuter train barreled through a station and crashed into…
National Transportation Safety Board
Safety recommendations unfulfilled 7 years after Flight 1549
By JOAN LOWY More than seven years after an airline captain saved 155 lives by ditching his crippled airliner in the Hudson River, now the basis of a new movie,…
Amtrak train derails in Kansas, injuring at least 32
By ROXANA HEGEMAN and MICHAEL BALSAMO An Amtrak train carrying more than 140 people derailed in rural Kansas early Monday, moments after an engineer noticed a significant bend in a…
NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn’t use cellphone before crash
By JOAN LOWY The engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download data just before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, safety investigators…
Probe into fatal crash centers on how SUV ended up on tracks
By JIM FITZGERALD and JENNIFER PELTZ An investigation into what caused a fiery crash that killed a motorist and five rail riders is focusing on how a mother of three…
DC subway hobbled after smoke filled train, killing 1
By BEN NUCKOLS and JESSICA GRESKO The transit network in the nation’s capital was hobbled Tuesday after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with smoke a day earlier,…
SAFETY QUESTIONS AFTER ND OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT
By DAVE KOLPACK and JAMES MacPHERSON A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil…
CRANES RIGHTING ANOTHER CAR OF DERAILED NYC TRAIN
By VERENA DOBNIK and KILEY ARMSTRONG First responders gather at the derailment of a Metro North passenger train in the Bronx borough of New York Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013 The…