A Metro-North train headed to Grand Central Terminal derailed in the Bronx, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (Dec. 1, 2013) Photo Credit: Lou Minutoli
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Long Island
MTA to focus on LIRR safety after derailment
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Monday announced several initiatives aimed at improving customer and employee safety, including the installation of new ...
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New York
$15 million sought to hire more rail inspectors
A spending bill unveiled this week by a bipartisan congressional panel includes $15 million to allow federal railroad officials to ...
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Long Island
Feds to install train cameras after derailment
The nation's railroad regulatory agency will install cameras in train operators' cabins nationwide by the end of this year or ...
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Long Island
LIRR upgrades after Metro-North derailment
Long Island Rail Road officials Monday announced safety initiatives to avoid accidents like the Dec. 1 Metro-North derailment that killed ...
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Transportation
Senators: Railroad system 'woefully' underfunded
A bipartisan budget deal making its way through Congress should include a $15 million boost in federal transportation safety funding ...
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LIRR
Derailment reignites engineer fatigue debate
The deadly derailment of a Metro-North Railroad train has reignited a decades-old debate on how to combat fatigue among locomotive ...
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New York
Agency orders 2 operators on Metro-North trains
Less than a week after a fatal accident in the Bronx, federal railroad officials Friday ordered Metro-North to immediately keep ...
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New York
Safety 'alerter' not in derailed train's engineer cab
The commuter train that derailed in the Bronx on Sunday was equipped with a safety system designed to keep the ...
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New York
Train victim's family arrives from S. Korea
As investigators continue to probe the cause of the deadly Metro-North crash Sunday in the Bronx, the brother and brother-in-law ...
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New York
Feds order MTA to create employee reporting system
Alarmed over a string of accidents on the Metro-North Railroad, including the one on Sunday that killed four people, federal ...