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...trains were traveling on parallel tracks that merged to cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire...
...collision raised serious issues for the National Transportation Safety Board, most of them focusing on the Conrail train crew. Who deliberately disabled an annoying whistle in the locomotive that would have warned of the danger? Why was a bulb missing on a critical cab signal light? The most important long-term question: Why are freight and high-speed passenger operations allowed to mix in the nation's busiest transportation corridor...
...taken the train between my home in D.C. and Boston close to a dozen times during the past two years, and I'll probably take it again. I really don't know...
...NTSB has also urged the FAA to require pilots and copilots on commuter airlines to be checked more frequently on their instrument flying. The safety board urges faster development of a program to provide flight simulators to train these pilots and asks that the commuter carriers be required to provide at least one experienced pilot on each flight, rather than have two newcomers work together. No single move, however, could ease the worries of pilots and passengers alike more than installing collision-warning devices on airplanes. After years of indecision and delay, the FAA is finally moving to put such...
France's worst outbreak of public strikes since the 1960s grew increasingly turbulent last week. Sparked by walkouts of rail and maritime workers last month, the stoppages cut train service by up to 80%, leaving thousands of travelers stranded, and virtually halted activity in many of the country's major ports. Strikers blocked rail lines and harassed workers who remained on the job. In Paris, police were called out to clear the tracks for the few trains that still...