U.S. House votes to extend train speed control deadline

I’ll bet the next crash victims will be more than understanding!

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Tuesday approved a three-year extension of the deadline for installing automatic speed control systems that could have prevented the fatal derailment of an Amtrak train in May. The Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015 would give railroads until Dec. 31, 2018, rather than the end of 2015, to install positive…