The title of Larry Light’s “PTC vs. Legacy Train Control” article in the June 2016 issue of Railway Age (full text follows this article) promised a balanced discussion of the differences between newer ...

In a ceremony that remembered victims of the deadly Chatsworth crash in 2008, the Metrolink passenger railroad Thursday launched a state-of-the-art safety system along sections of its 512-mile network ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- A federal investigator says the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia sped up from 70 to over 100-miles-an-hour in the minute before it hit a sharp curve and had a ...

Congress has extended the deadline for the technology twice since 2015. — -- Even before arriving on the scene of Monday's Amtrak crash south of Seattle, National Transportation Safety Board ...

Last week's Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia that killed 8 people has re-ignited the call for a nationwide network of “positive train control” systems. Voices have been clamoring about whether or not ...

German police have arrested a railway area controller who, the prosecutors claim, was involved in the Bad Aibling train crash in February killing 11 people. The prosecutors said that the controller ...

The location may be near Philadelphia, but the story is tragically familiar to anyone in Southern California who commutes by rail: After a deadly derailment -- this one of an Amtrak train apparently ...

Some 18,000 people each weekday ride Sounder commuter trains that for years lacked automated crash-prevention systems that are routine in Europe and Japan. Better protection is slowly on its way. Most ...

Taito is about to release its most detailed train simulator yet, and with it the most impressive train-simulator controller ever seen. Densha de Go! Shinkansen (as these images from Impress Game Watch ...

Norfolk Southern is planning on building seven 60-foot tall train control towers in Montgomery County, and 12 in Berks County. The towers are a step in fulfilling requirements put into place by the ...

A computer-based system designed to prevent train accidents has been stalled by high costs and technological hurdles. It was not being used by the train that derailed Monday in Washington state, ...