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Evaluation of Habituation to Alerts in Locomotive Cabs
From September 2019 to May 2022, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) funded KEA Technologies Inc. to conduct a pilot study using a rail simulator to determine whether engineers can become habituated to auditory alerts while operating a locomotive. Habituation, in this case, is a behavior...
Accident Investigation Summary Report FE-2023-04
On March 7, 2023, at approximately 1:08 a.m. EST, a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) conductor was fatally injured when Train C75B106 collided with a dump truck at a private road crossing in Cleveland, Ohio. The accident occurred on NS’s Cleveland Branch Line near a steel mill owned by...