NTSB Chair: No more delays on railway safety

February 21, 2018

(Source: The State opinion column by NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, February 20, 2018)

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Although the investigation is ongoing into the tragic Amtrak passenger train crash in Cayce, we knew immediately that a rail switch had been improperly set, diverting the Amtrak into a siding occupied by a stationary CSX train.