Safety advocates, transportation union leaders and Democratic lawmakers oppose the administration’s decision to kill the brake rule, which was included in a package of rail safety measures enacted in ...

After the brake rule was enacted, lobbyists for the railroad and oil industries pushed to cancel it, citing the high cost of installing so-called electronic pneumatic brakes and questioning their ...

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 ...

This summary presents a comprehensive examination of train dynamics and braking systems—a field critical to ensuring the safety, efficiency and reliability of modern rail transport. Central to this ...

Air brake technology is improving. Do FRA brake test rules need updating? Freight train operations continue to evolve—specifically, longer heavier consists running in all kinds of weather conditions ...

The most tragic revelation to come out of Tuesday’s horrific Amtrak derailment just north of the Philadelphia station is this: It did not have to happen. If an automatic braking system, mandated by ...

The operator of a CTA Yellow Line train hit the brakes in the moments before the railcars struck a snowplow on the tracks in mid-November, a preliminary report issued by federal investigators shows.

But in making their calculations, they left out the most common type of derailments in which spilled and burning fuel causes property damage but no mass casualties, the AP found. Equipping fuel trains ...

US Miscalculated Benefits of Oil Train Brakes A government analysis used by the administration to justify the cancellation of an Obama-era rule on the installation of railroad brakes omitted up to ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration miscalculated the potential benefits of putting better brakes on trains that haul explosive fuels when it scrapped an Obama-era rule over ...