The deadly derailment of an oil tanker train in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, over the weekend has raised questions over how the unmanned 73-car train rolled away from where it had been stopped. The head of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) The engineer on the runaway train that leveled much of a ...

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — Insufficient brake force was applied before an oil train slammed into a town in Quebec on July 6 and killed 47 people, officials said Friday. Donald Ross, chief investigator for ...

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- Insufficient brake force was applied before an oil train came barreling out of nowhere in the middle of the night and slammed into a small town in Quebec, killing 47 people, ...

In my job, I see every day how small, practical ideas can change the way we work. A pole that enables train crews to set and release hand brakes from the ground is a perfect example. Rod Doerr ...

There are many things that can’t be hurried in this life, and probably shouldn’t be, like wine and bread (let beaujolais nouveau and matzoh be a warning to us all). There are other things that could ...

OTTAWA (AFP) – Canada's Transportation Safety Board ordered railways Friday to check the brakes on all trains, after a preliminary investigation into a deadly derailment in Quebec faulted its brakes.

Residents of the small Quebec town where a train carrying crude crashed and killed as many as 50 people are calling on the head of the railway to take more responsibility after he said an engineer ...

Last week’s feature about trains in the 1920s and ‘30s concluded with the story of a hot-shot engineer who took his air brakes to the limit, “cadillacking” down a mountain. The trains’ brakemen emerge ...

President and CEO of the railway%27s parent company says an employee failed to properly set train%27s brakes He said a train engineer has been suspended without pay Railway boss promised an energetic ...