By Ashley Halsey III, The Washington Post; April 9, 2019
Two CSX railroad workers who were struck and killed by an Amtrak train near Union Station almost two years ago should not have been on the tracks and should have had ways to communicate with the onrushing train, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report Tuesday.
The NTSB issued a recommendation that CSX and Amtrak “prohibit employees from walking or working too close to adjacent tracks of another railroad unless the employees are protected by means of communication between the two railroads.”