One Amtrak train, carrying 255 passengers, halted for six hours while a frozen track switch was fixed.

The system's track switches (also known as turnouts) are activated by the motorman reaching out of his window and pushing a button.

These include buying 1,500 badly needed buses and installing tunnel fans and track switches, critical safety measures that indeed deserve to come first.

Trains running downgrade were required to maintain a speed of 8mph until reaching the runaway track switch.

Officials could not immediately determine what caused the derailment, but Mr. Giuliani and others said they suspected that something had gone wrong with a track switch.

This is accomplished through two sets of track switches, one before the rear segment and one after.

Oktober 7th 1964 a locomotive driver reported sparks at the flat track switch.

A 10-car commuter train tried to transfer from one track to another near the Rahway station on Friday and passed over a track switch, which moved.

The red and green lights marking the track switches are your only illumination now, and all you need.

As the train gets closer, Joaquin has Toronado hit a track switch, causing the train to pass around the governor's car.