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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on March 31 again called for additional backup safety defenses—“i.e., physical fail-safe train controls”—in signaled territory, following its ...

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., ...

San Francisco’s normally predictable N-Judah light rail line became a scene of pandemonium one September morning when a drowsy train operator seemingly nodded off at the controls. Passengers were sent ...

The Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. of New York and New Jersey is planning to modernize its signal system to add automatic train control capabilities. An analysis said that digitally encoded audio ...

On May 15, 2001, a gray, overcast afternoon, Sergeant Tom Gwinn of the Ohio State Highway Patrol stands in the grass beside a railroad crossing in rural northwestern Ohio, his 12-gauge shotgun at the ...