The two-car train crashed into a snow plow around 10:30 a.m. Nov. 17, 2023, on the main tracks adjacent to the Howard rail yard in Rogers Park.

An NTSB report on the Nov. 16, 2023 CTA Yellow Line train crash in Rogers Park blames "aggressive" braking and slippery tracks. .

Furthermore, the “braking distance design from the 1970s did not match CTA’s current braking distance criteria.” The CTA deferred comments on the investigation to the NTSB.

None of the circumstances the NTSB described in its preliminary report on the March 2 derailment would have triggered the automated positive train control system to stop the trains.

The operator then saw the snow removal machine and initiated an emergency braking application. The train decelerated to about 27 mph before striking the snow removal machine," an initial NTSB ...

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