The fault on Aug 6, which occurred near the Jurong East MRT station, caused delays and took five hours to resolve. Read more ...

PATH also has deployed additional staff on the platforms at Hoboken to monitor crowding and provide alternate travel options as needed, officials said.

The train derailed where two tracks converged, according to Federal Railroad Administration spokesperson Warren Flatau. The track switch there had been damaged by the previous train running ...

The railroad also conducted “thorough assessments” of all 1,045 switches in the LIRR system and determined that the problem was unique to the one switch, which was located just east of Jamaica ...

Speed restrictions will be in place along a section of the PATH train through Labor Day. A major improvement project along the PATH Train and Hoboken Station, which was completed in February, is ...

Switches are areas of the track that change the direction of the train. A frozen switch could halt a train or send it in the wrong direction. Courtesy photo/Denton County Transportation Authority ...

NEW YORK -- A misaligned track switch caused the Long Island Rail Road train derailment in Queens. Eight cars on a train bound for Hempstead derailed just east of Jamaica Station on Aug. 3.

Service will be suspended starting August 30th for track reconstruction work. Crews will remove and replace the switches just south of the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station.

Object Details user Michigan Central Railroad maker Peter Gray & Sons Description This large, kerosene-fueled switch lamp, ca. 1900s-1940s, was placed immediately adjacent to the manual operating ...

JOPLIN, Mont. — Federal investigators are seeking the cause of an Amtrak train derailment near a switch on tracks in the middle of vast farmland in far northern Montana that killed three people ...