The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday.Federal Railroad ...

The Amtrak passenger train didn't have a safety technology called the positive train control activated at the time it derailed in Washington state, said Richard Anderson, the rail service's president ...

The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) said yesterday it has published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) focused on regulations related to Positive ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Transit Authority and other subway-based systems have what amounts to a safety exemption that gives them a pass from a federally-required technology called "Positive Train ...

The automatic braking system railroads were required to install several years ago needs improvement to better prevent collisions, federal safety investigators said in ...

Trains have been delayed on every Metra commuter line in the Chicago area during the Tuesday evening rush, due to a positive train control system outage. Metra officials said, beginning around 5 p.m., ...

The MTA might ask the federal government to lower its standards in deciding if the Long Island Rail Road’s efforts so far in installing positive train control technology throughout its system meet ...

Numerous Metra lines are experiencing service interruptions and train cancellations due to outages with the Positive Train Control system, the agency says. According to officials, all trains on the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra has resolved a system-wide outage impacting safety technology, and trains are operating with delays on Tuesday evening. A Metra spokesperson said a positive train control outage ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. Metra commuters could face significant delays during the Wednesday ...