The Metrolink commuter rail engineer involved in the deadly train collision in Chatsworth, Calif., last Friday had sent and received text messages while on duty that day, the National Transportation ...

NTSB opens hearing on crash that killed 25, injured 130 in California last year. In this file photo, emergency personnel respond to a head-on crash between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union ...

Federal investigators are still puzzling out the cause of the Chatsworth crash. Even so, the company that employs Metrolink train engineers is under scrutiny for its possible role in the accident.

LOS ANGELES A preliminary investigation found that "it was a Metrolink engineer that failed to stop at a red signal and that was the probable cause" of Friday's collision with a freight train in Los ...

LOS ANGELES — A commuter train engineer who ran a stop signal was blamed Saturday for the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in 15 years, a wreck that killed 25 people and left such a mass ...

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This might be the story of the weekend. Robert Sanchez, the engineer driving the Metrolink train that crashed in Chatsworth last September, not only texted regularly with teenagers along his route.

WASHINGTON — The engineer of a commuter train failed to stop at a red light before slamming head-on into a freight train in a crash that killed 25 people and injured at least 130 last September in ...