It sounds like something that a state-of-the-art model railroad hobbyist might purchase–a wearable device that can control a diesel locomotive by remote control. But this is no toy. The device is a ...

MATTOON — A locomotive running down the tracks without an engineer in the cab used to be a runaway train. Today, a locomotive driven by someone outside the engine cab is a run-of-the-mill operation in ...

The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews.