More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

On a warm Saturday afternoon in 1920, a freight and passenger train traveling on the old "Ma & Pa" railroad collided head-on, ...

A woman was flown to an area hospital Thursday after her car was crushed by an oncoming freight train in Andover, Massachusetts. Shrapnel from Marines anniversary demonstration detonates over ...

Newly released surveillance video shows the moment a freight train hit an 84-year-old driver who had stopped on the tracks in Andover, Massachusetts, on Thursday morning. The video shows the Lexus ...

Rail equipment lessor GATX Corp. on Tuesday reported lower North American profits as expenses grew faster than revenue during ...

A trail derailment involving a freight train prompted an investigation in the City of Industry, officials confirmed Thursday. The train’s four rail cars came off the tracks at 7 a.m. in the rail yard ...

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Fifteen freight train cars derailed Thursday in Industry, but no injuries were reported. The derailment occurred at 7:23 a.m. along Union Pacific tracks near the 17000 block of Arenth Avenue, ...

JACKSON, Mo. (KFVS) - Patriot Rail donated four vintage railroad freight cars to St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway in Jackson. However, the cars are currently in Mississippi, so a fundraiser ...

Sheriff's investigators arrested 17 suspects, recovered more than $376,000 worth of allegedly stolen goods and seized more than $61,000 in cash this week as they carried out raids in Victorville and ...

A woman who died last week after being hit by a freight train in Antioch was a transient, authorities said Tuesday. The collision that killed 34-year-old Leighann Kingsbury happened on Oct. 7 about 8 ...

The New Kent County Sheriff’s Office says crews are responding to a train derailment that happened Saturday between Roxbury ...