Apr 13, 2010
Two Metro Employees Suspended After Derailment
Metro has suspended two of its employees following a March 10 derailment at the Brentwood rail yard, the Examiner’s Kytja Weir reports. A train operator was suspended for 30 days and an interlocking operator was suspended for 10 days, both without pay. No one was injured in the incident, in which a Red Line train, moving through the rail yard with no passengers aboard, ran a red signal and subsequently derailed….
Dec 01, 2009
NTSB Will Investigate Sunday’s Metro Crash
Photo by outlandk The National Transportation Safety Board will launch an investigation into Sunday’s early morning collision between two Metrorail trains at the West Falls Church rail yard, as the Washington Post reports this morning. Three Metro employees were injured, and a minimum of $9 million in damage – a total that is likely to rise – occurred as a result of the crash. As we noted at the end of the day yesterday…