WASHINGTON — The Yellow and Green Lines are once again running between Mount Vernon Square and Gallery Place after hours of single-tracking following reported fire department activity and a brake ...

DUPONT, Wash. -- Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an ...

The emergency brake on Amtrak train 501 was automatically activated in a train derailment near DuPont early Monday morning. Bella Dinh-Zarr with the National Transportation Safety Board said in a news ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Dec. 29 issued a safety advisory to make the rail industry aware “of a recent issue encountered by a train crew that experienced an unintended brake ...

The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...

A half-century after a federal safety board envisioned an automatic train braking system to prevent major train collisions — and a dozen years after Congress ordered its installation — transportation ...