The Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday issued a pair of safety alerts related to recent grade crossing accidents that killed railroaders or motorists. In a safety advisory, the FRA emphasized ...

More than nine times a week, a tractor-trailer and a train collide, and there are many more near-hits than collisions. Every three hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. Trains can ...

Railroad Permissive Crossings—Has the ‘Well-Worn Path’ Worn Out Its Welcome? When a railroad company has for years, without objection, permitted the public to cross its tracks at a given point, there ...

Raising awareness about the need to remain vigilant around rail crossings constitutes a message both the public and the system’s operators should take seriously. Currently, a PSA targeting one ...

A bicyclist’s recent death at the South Calumet Road railroad crossing in Chesterton’s downtown has spurred town officials and the neighboring Porter community to explore ways to improve pedestrian ...

Most of us have experienced the frustration of being stuck at a railroad crossing waiting for a train to pass. We know when we see the crossing arms go down and the red lights flash that a train is ...

Editor's note: this article was updated to correct the name of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and its spokesperson. Safety improvements are being considered for a Penn Township railroad ...

Since the beginning of this year, a half-dozen MBTA Commuter Rail trains have collided with vehicles that crossed onto railroad tracks, some with deadly consequences for the drivers. Then, in separate ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told NBC News that it had spoken to Tesla about mishaps at train crossings. Italo Frigoli was trying out the Full Self-Driving software of his Tesla ...