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Byline: Ian Duncan As Norfolk Southern worked to clear up the mess from a derailment in Springfield, Ohio, last weekend, it discovered an urgent new problem: Some of its new [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Major freight railroads have agreed among themselves to adopt new safety measures, pledging to expand a network of sensors designed to catch overheating bearings and setting a [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Norfolk Southern said Monday that it plans to install 200 more hotbox detectors along its rail lines - beginning near the site of last month's derailment in [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Norfolk Southern said Monday it plans to install 200 more hotbox detectors along its rail lines - beginning near the site of last month's derailment in East [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo; Ian Duncan Tank cars carrying vinyl chloride in a train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, had aluminum protective coverings that melted into pressure valves, potentially 'degrading' [...]

Byline: Lee Powell Railroads used to be an inescapable part of American life: They employed lots of people and were the nation's largest industry by revenue. But that was more [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan; Luz Lazo The Federal Railroad Administration issued a formal safety advisory Tuesday urging railroads to improve their use of trackside safety detectors, which failed to provide enough [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Justine McDaniel and Ian Duncan Two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals went off the tracks in northeastern Ohio, President Biden sat in the Oval Office [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan; Andrea Salcedo Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a letter Sunday to Norfolk Southern chief executive Alan Shaw that he would call on Congress to raise the [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan; Luz Lazo; Michael Laris Three months before one of his railroad's trains derailed and burned in Ohio, Norfolk Southern chief executive Alan Shaw shared a picture of [...]

Byline: Eugene Robinson Assembling superlong freight trains and employing fewer workers to staff them works out well for the nation's big railroad companies. For the desperate residents of East Palestine, [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix and John Hudson KYIV - With a mix of prudence, exuberance and, mostly, defiance, Ukrainians on Wednesday took time out from their existential battle with invading Russian [...]

Byline: Liz Sly When Russian troops first streamed across the Belarusian border into Ukraine for what they had assumed would be a lightning assault on Kyiv, they were intending to [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch A group of pro-democracy hackers calling themselves 'Cyber Partisans' said Monday they had infiltrated the Belarusian rail network in an effort to 'disrupt' the movement of Russian [...]

Byline: Amy Cheng Boeing is dropping a policy requiring all U.S.-based employees to be vaccinated, citing a federal district court ruling earlier this month that blocked a key Biden administration [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima WASHINGTON - The federal government will impose cybersecurity mandates on 'higher-risk'' railroad and rail transit systems this year, expanding its regulatory push beyond pipelines, the nation's top [...]

Byline: Justin George A power surge forced the shutdown of half of the New York City subway system for five hours, stranding hundreds of passengers before service was restored early [...]

Byline: Justin George A half-century after a federal safety board envisioned an automatic train braking system to stop major collisions - and a dozen years after Congress ordered its installation [...]

Byline: Dan Morse and Tom Jackman WASHINGTON - At the start of the Tuesday morning commute, an FBI agent was involved in a shooting aboard a Metro Red Line Train [...]

Byline: Natalie B. Compton Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Transportation Security Administration reported a record number of travelers passing through airports, and AAA predicted that nearly 50 million people would be [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo U.S. railroads are on track to meet a December deadline to implement an automatic braking system that could prevent catastrophic collisions and derailments caused by speeding, the [...]

Byline: Paul Duggan WASHINGTON - More than three years after Metro's history of dangerous calamities prompted U.S. officials to take control of subway safety oversight, the Federal Transit Administration said [...]

Byline: Ashley Halsey III WASHINGTON - A decade after Congress ordered the nation's railroads to install an automatic braking system that could have prevented more that 130 train wrecks, industry [...]

Byline: Mark Berman The FBI said an armed man who stopped an Amtrak train last year had ties with a white-supremacist group and had expressed a desire to kill black [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo and Ashley Halsey III The National Transportation Safety Board says the train that derailed Monday as it made its way from Seattle to Portland was going more [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo and Ashley Halsey III The National Transportation Safety Board says the train that derailed Monday as it made its way from Seattle to Portland was going more [...]

Byline: Justin Wm. Moyer;Faiz Siddiqui Red Line trains are single-tracking downtown after a person fell on the tracks at the Judiciary Square station Tuesday afternoon, Metro officials said. Metro spokesman [...]

Byline: Martine Powers The current state of Metro may be far from perfect, but the agency logged two sizable wins this week: a safety milestone from the worst train crash [...]

Byline: Rick Noack It was 9:07 a.m. on March 22 when Belgian police's directorate of operations sent out an email ordering the closure of the Brussels metro. Earlier that morning, [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum BRUSSELS - After three vacationing Americans and other passengers tackled and trussed a Moroccan man who had started shooting aboard a high-speed train in Europe's heart, this [...]

Byline: Ashley Halsey III WASHINGTON - Almost two years after a runaway tank-car train erupted in an explosion that killed 47 people in a Canadian town, the U.S. Department of [...]