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James Romansoff was an eight-year employee in Metro-North’s Power Department, and was part of a crew restoring power to tracks that had been closed for weekend maintenance work. The NTSB and the FRA are investigating the incident along with Metro-North and the MTA Police Department.
Read More →Recommends inward and outward facing audio and image recorders and the installation of approach permanent speed restrictions signs along the right-of-ways.
Read More →Downed wires left nearly 200 riders in in 10-degree weather for about two hours on Thursday. The train lost power and heat, but the railcars had been warm beforehand and temperatures inside the cars never fell below freezing, officials say.
Read More →Howard Permut will be replaced by Joe Giulietti, executive director of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which operates Tri-Rail.
Read More →Known as Metro-North Train Time and LIRR Train Time, the new apps are available now for Android and iPhone and are free to download.
Read More →Will exhaustively review agency's compliance with federal regulations, its procedures and practices, and its safety culture.
Read More →Recommendations include having railroad operators review the circumstances of the Metro-North derailment with their operating employees and provide instruction to employees on the importance of compliance with maximum authorized train speed limits.
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In response, the Metro-North signal crews have installed new protections at the Spuyten Duyvil curve, which will warn train engineers of the approaching speed reduction and automatically apply the train's emergency brakes if speed is not lowered to the 30 mph maximum in the curve.
Read More →The FRA asked Congress to grant extensions for positive train control on some rail lines and allow alternative technologies, according to a Government Accountability Office report published in August.
Read More →Federal investigators have recovered the engineer’s cell phone, though it has been reported they don't believe he was on it at the time of the crash.
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