October 12, 2017
An off-duty firefighter is being commended after officials say he pulled a woman from her SUV just before the vehicle was struck by an oncoming Long Island Railroad train. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says the collision occurred Tuesday night in …
March 12, 2015
The 127-ton tractor-trailer that derailed an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing in North Carolina was about three times the size and weight of a standard 18-wheeler, so huge it required a Highway Patrol escort, and so tall that it …
February 26, 2015
The bullet train that will whisk passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles at 200 miles per hour won’t pass through the kinds of intersections that have led to two major commuter-rail accidents this month. That’s because the California High-Speed …
February 23, 2012
The number of people killed in train-related accidents in Kansas has remained steady in the past 20 years although there has been a dramatic decrease in such fatalities nationwide, according to federal statistics. About 16 people were killed by trains …
December 20, 2011
A Umatilla County employee was killed when a train struck the road grader he was operating to spread gravel. The East Oregonian reports. the accident on Thursday killed 63-year-old Stanley McCall. The train’s operator told the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office …