Amtrak is moving to either acquire new locomotives or rebuild its current diesel fleet of locomotives to supplement and replace its aging national network diesel locomotive fleet used on long-distance and some state-supported routes.
Amtrak says a misaligned switch is to blame for a head-on collision that left two Amtrak employees dead and more than 100 passengers injured, reports indicate.
Two people were killed and 100 injured when an Amtrak train traveling on the wrong track collided with a CSX freight train, published reports indicate.
The National Transportation Safety Board says the 55-year-old engineer of the train involved in a deadly Dec. 18 derailment lost track of where the train was just before the derailment.
The federal government is expecting railroads to implement positive train control (PTC) systems by the Congressionally mandated Dec. 31 deadline, Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao said in a letter.