Sep 18th, 2008 · Federal investigators say a Metrolink commuter train engineer was sending text messages when he ran a stop signal and slammed into an oncoming freight train. It has prompted California to pass a temporary ban on train operators from using their cell phones while on the job.
Sep 18th, 2008 · Thirteen months after a bridge collapse in Minneapolis killed 13 people, a replacement has opened for traffic. Some Twin Cities commuters marveled at the speed of the reopening, but others say they can't bring themselves to drive over it.
Sep 17th, 2008 · Scientists say they've recorded whale calls within commuting distance of New York City. Christopher Clark, director of the Bioacoustic Research Program at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, shares the program's findings and some of the whale sounds.
Sep 15th, 2008 · Metrolink's spokeswoman has resigned after coming under fire from her superiors for revealing that the engineer failed to stop at the red light in last Friday deadly crash. A smaller number of commuters than usual returned to the Los Angeles' commuter rail line Monday.
Sep 15th, 2008 · Federal investigators in the north L.A. suburb of Chatsworth are still poring over the deadly scene of Friday's head-on collision between a commuter train carrying 225 people and a freight train. As of this morning, 25 people have died and 135 are injured—40 of them critically.
Sep 15th, 2008 · Federal investigators say a Los Angeles commuter train engineer missed two verbal safety checks just moments before he slammed head-on into a freight train Friday. They're also trying to determine whether the engineer — who died in the crash — was using his cell phone.
Sep 14th, 2008 · Authorities say a commuter train's engineer missed a signal light and his MetroLink train crashed head-on with a freight train in the San Fernando Valley community of Chatsworth. But a union representing rail workers raised the possibility that the signal malfunctioned.
Sep 13th, 2008 · At least 18 people were killed in a collision between a commuter train and a freight train in the Los Angeles suburb of Chatsworth on Friday. Transit officials said the commuter train engineer apparently failed to stop at a red light.