Bans on train whistles lifted
Mac Daniel - 04/29/2005
Four area towns will be forced to have trains blow their whistles at rail crossings starting Monday, a change intended to improve safety.
Mac Daniel - 04/29/2005
Four area towns will be forced to have trains blow their whistles at rail crossings starting Monday, a change intended to improve safety.
Train, Minivan Collision Kills 4
Staff - 04/10/2005
A freight train smashed into a minivan Sunday at a crossing that lacked lights or gates, killing all four people in the vehicle, authorities said.
Staff - 04/10/2005
A freight train smashed into a minivan Sunday at a crossing that lacked lights or gates, killing all four people in the vehicle, authorities said.
Police ticketing railroad-crossing violators
Katie Nelson - 04/08/2005
A 10,000-ton bulk of steel can come bearing down fast.
Katie Nelson - 04/08/2005
A 10,000-ton bulk of steel can come bearing down fast.
Blanco wants railroads to pay more for RR crossings
Staff - 03/24/2005
Governor Kathleen Blanco says the railroad industry should double the amount of money it pays to construct safety equipment at railway crossings.
Staff - 03/24/2005
Governor Kathleen Blanco says the railroad industry should double the amount of money it pays to construct safety equipment at railway crossings.
Attention focuses on hazardous crossings
Sharon Bernstein - 01/29/2005
As crews worked to clean up after Wednesday's deadly commuter train crash, attention turned to the public's easy and potentially dangerous access to rail lines that cross city streets.
Sharon Bernstein - 01/29/2005
As crews worked to clean up after Wednesday's deadly commuter train crash, attention turned to the public's easy and potentially dangerous access to rail lines that cross city streets.
RR crossing crash and one family's grief
Walt Bogdanich - 07/12/2004
In those first raw days after his 17-year-old daughter died, Norman Feaster couldn't stop thinking about how easily she might have been saved: If only Hilary hadn't agreed to run an errand that took her down an unfamiliar road. If only the overgrown bushes hadn't blocked her view of the railroad tracks. If only there had been crossing gates to stop her from driving in front of a CSX locomotive on that autumn day in 1997.
Walt Bogdanich - 07/12/2004
In those first raw days after his 17-year-old daughter died, Norman Feaster couldn't stop thinking about how easily she might have been saved: If only Hilary hadn't agreed to run an errand that took her down an unfamiliar road. If only the overgrown bushes hadn't blocked her view of the railroad tracks. If only there had been crossing gates to stop her from driving in front of a CSX locomotive on that autumn day in 1997.
Deaths at rail crossings missing evidence
Walt Bogdanich - 07/11/2004
At 5:45 p.m., with the autumn sun dipping toward the horizon, Blas Lopez, a father of four young children, drove his truck loaded with potatoes bound for market onto a railroad crossing in south-central Washington State. In an instant, a 4,700-ton Union Pacific train rammed Mr. Lopez's truck with the force of an explosion, ripping apart his body.
Walt Bogdanich - 07/11/2004
At 5:45 p.m., with the autumn sun dipping toward the horizon, Blas Lopez, a father of four young children, drove his truck loaded with potatoes bound for market onto a railroad crossing in south-central Washington State. In an instant, a 4,700-ton Union Pacific train rammed Mr. Lopez's truck with the force of an explosion, ripping apart his body.
MBTA seeks to build housing over Boston rail line
Anthony Flint - 06/27/2003
The MBTA wants to see a major housing complex built over the sunken Fitchburg commuter rail line near the Red Line's Porter Square station, opening a new front in the development of lucrative air rights in the Boston area.
Anthony Flint - 06/27/2003
The MBTA wants to see a major housing complex built over the sunken Fitchburg commuter rail line near the Red Line's Porter Square station, opening a new front in the development of lucrative air rights in the Boston area.