Rail operators have leeway to decide how many handbrakes are sufficient for any given train Lac-Megantic, Quebec: The handbrake is the railroad industry’s ultimate fail-safe mechanism. It is supposed ...

WASHINGTON -- If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a mission that could be called thrilling, it is disaster response. Nothing except perhaps declared war generates as much national interest, or ...

When I worked at Washington State Emergency Management Division (21 years ago), there were several full-time project positions filled by civil engineers who managed all the various infrastructure and ...

A former Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr Joe Abah, has narrated how a ground engineer saved travellers on an Ibom Airlines flight from a “potential disaster”. Narrating the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The engineer of an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, went "from distraction to disaster" in a matter of seconds because he was so focused on ...

CBC Radio-Canada has obtained recorded telephone conversations between train engineer Tom Harding and a dispatcher from the night of the deadly rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que., last year that ...

A train operator's boss has blamed a local engineer for a runaway train that derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, killing at least 20 people. Rail World head Edward Burkhardt said he did not ...

The train engineer on duty during the July 6 Canadian rail disaster that killed at least 50 people and incinerated the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic is devastated and in seclusion, his lawyer told ...

Former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Joe Abah has recounted a distressing incident where the quick intervention of a ground engineer prevented a possible disaster aboard an ...