Tag: Derailments

Plans to build a Metro station at Alexandria's Potomac Yard have hit another snag, pushing back the opening of a potential station there to 2017 at the earliest. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

DC Metro to offer reduced service through end of year

Elizabeth Faddis · November 22, 2021 10:24 pm

DC rolls out old metro cars as derailment inspection and delays continue

Matthew Miller · October 21, 2021 11:28 pm

The Washington Metrorail has proposed terminating 1,000 employees as a way to cut costs in fiscal year 2018, when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority faces a nearly $300 million budget gap. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DC Metro train derailed twice before accident that day: NTSB

Kaelan Deese · October 18, 2021 3:26 pm

NTSB says no mechanical problems in Amtrak crash

Steve Doty · June 2, 2015 5:42 pm

In this aerial photo, emergency personnel work at the scene of a passenger train wreck in Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

National Security

FBI investigating whether Amtrak train was hit or shot at before crash

Barbara Boland · May 16, 2015 3:12 pm

In this aerial photo, emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train wreck, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in Philadelphia. Federal investigators arrived Wednesday to determine why an Amtrak train jumped the tracks in a wreck that killed at least six people, and injured dozens. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Amtrak speed control system installed but wasn’t turned on

Susan Ferrechio · May 14, 2015 10:59 pm

Emergency personnel work the scene of a train wreck, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Philadelphia. An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and crashed in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

Eighth body found in Amtrak crash

Kelly Cohen · May 14, 2015 5:09 pm

In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment near Casselton, N.D.Â A train carrying oil derailed and exploded in North Dakota on Wednesday, nearly a week after federal regulators issued aggressive new standards to guard against tanker car disasters.Â (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)

Energy and Environment

Train explodes carrying shale oil in North Dakota

John Siciliano · May 6, 2015 6:16 pm

Train derails on Canada border, prompts evacuation

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 10:45 pm