Investigators looking into a deadly train derailment said Tuesday that no problems had been found with the train’s brake system or track signals along its route and that its engineer was being ...
Existing train brakes kick in “one car at a time,” Szabo said, explaining that as some cars are stopping, others still have momentum. “With ECPB, the entire train starts braking simultaneously. Not ...
Heavy-haul freight trains require fully charged brakes. When operating a train on a downgrade, brake usage levels on individual cars climb, equipment heats up, and braking power levels can drop ...
The MBTA has been quietly testing a new system that would recycle the energy lost when subway trains brake, as hybrid cars do, and leaders at the agency say they’re encouraged by the savings they’ve ...
The Trump administration repealed an Obama-era rule requiring high-hazard cargo trains to be equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023, allowing them to brake faster. Even if ...
FILE- In this Nov. 8, 2013 file photo, a tanker train carrying crude oil burns after derailing in western Alabama outside Aliceville, Ala. The Trump administration vastly understated the potential ...
The deadly derailment of an oil tanker train in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, over the weekend has raised questions over how the unmanned 73-car train rolled away from where it had been stopped. The head of ...
The brakes on the New Jersey Transit train that crashed into the platform at Hoboken Terminal on Sept. 29 show no signs of any defect. That's according to a preliminary report by the National ...
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