House bill would require train-stopping technology, following Washington Amtrak derailment

SEATTLE — The federal government would give $2.6 billion to railroads to install emergency train-stopping technologies, so they won’t miss a deadline of December 2018, under a new bill in the U.S. House.

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Published on January 18, 2018

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