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A freight train carrying coal has derailed in southwest Houston.
Amtrak has suspended service between Richmond and Newport News because of a freight train derailment.
Transit lines and railroads that use the same signal system that failed to detect a stopped train in the area of a deadly Washington crash should check them to make sure they are working correctly, a federal safety board urged Tuesday.
A safety system designed to help subway trains avoid crashes had malfunctioned months before a deadly Washington Metro crash in June, newly obtained records show.
The signaling system that detects a train on the tracks of Washington's transit system has been having problems for a year and a half in the area of a crash that killed nine, federal investigators said Thursday.
Four workers are injured after a freight train derailed at a West Virginia coal plant and caused a nearby building to collapse.
Signaling equipment that is supposed to detect stopped Metro transit trains continues to fail periodically in the area where a deadly crash occurred in Washington, officials testified Tuesday.
The death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany rose to 22 Friday after three injured people died in hospital, Italian officials said.
Seventeen cars from a coal train have derailed and tipped over in Georgia.
Investigators say equipment that is supposed to detect stopped trains failed periodically in the days leading up to a deadly Metro transit train crash in Washington, D.C.
Metro officials say red line trains in greater Washington, D.C., will return to regular speeds this holiday weekend for the first time since a deadly crash.
Metro is reopening all the stations along its red line during the morning and evening rush hours after a crash earlier this week killed nine people.
The victims of the Metro train collision in Washington included the recently retired commanding general of the D.C. National Guard and his wife; two working moms; a retired teacher who was working as a substitute, and a woman who worked with nurses around the world.
Federal safety officials are investigating a passenger's statement that the Washington Metrorail train that struck another in a deadly accident stopped briefly then started again before the crash.
Federal safety officials say the emergency brake was pushed down on a Washington Metrorail train that smashed into a second subway train, killing nine people.
Millions of passengers in cities across the U.S. ride old subway cars like the ones that crumpled in the deadly crash in the nation's capital. The largest transit systems depend on such cars for more than one-third of their fleets, despite safety concerns expressed by federal investigators more than three years ago.
The head of the transit workers' union in the nation's capital says any comments about the cause of a train accident that killed nine people would be premature and irresponsible.
Officials are identifying five of the victims killed in a subway train crash in Washington, D.C.
Rookie Metro train operator Jeanice McMillan relished ferrying commuters and tourists around the nation's capital, friends and relatives said Tuesday, a day after she died doing a job that they never considered dangerous.
President Barack Obama says the thoughts and prayers of the first family go out to the victims of the commuter train crash in Washington, D.C., that killed six people and injured scores of others.
For the third time in nine months, a major subway or commuter rail crash occurred in a big city.
Metro transit officials are confirming an earlier report that nine people were killed in a train collision.
The general manager of the Washington Metro says the two-train collision occurred when one train stopped at a platform near the Fort Totten station, and a second train hit it from behind.
A memorial service will be held for the operator of a Washington Metro train involved in Monday's crash.
There was high water along the northern Illinois rail line where a freight train derailed, setting off a fiery explosion and killing one person, federal authorities said Sunday.
13 killed in gas train infernoA railway carriage filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town, setting off an inferno that killed at least 13 people and injured 36 others, officials said today.
Pictured: The moment tanks containing thousands of gallons of ethanol explode after U.S. train derailmentTank cars loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol exploded in flames as a freight train derailed north-west of Chicago, killing one person and forcing evacuations of hundreds of nearby homes.
Train Derailment at Louisville Zoo Sends 20 to Hospitals, at Least One Seriously InjuredI can't count the number of times I've ridden the train at the Louisville Zoo. It is small, doesn't go very fast. The train feature has been there for over 4 decades without a serious incident, to my knowledge.
Metra North Central trains to run MondayCommuter service on Metra's North Central Line will be back to normal on Monday after a freight-train derailment early Friday shut down the tracks, piling up 17 cars and angering thousands of riders stranded in the bitter cold.
Derailment halts Metra North Central serviceAll morning rush hour service on Metra's North Central service between Antioch and Chicago has been canceled today because of a major freight train derailment in Buffalo Grove, Metra said. It was considered unlikely that service would be able to resume any time today.
Incorrect points setting blamed for fatal Cumbria train derailmentNetwork Rail (NR) incorrectly set up points on tracks which failed, causing last year's fatal Cumbria train derailment an official report has found.
Chicago commuter train derailsA commuter train in Chicago has derailed with multiple injuries being reported. At least two of the four cars on the CTA Green Line train are off the tracks.
Trial begins in most devastating wreck in Metrolink historyJuan Manuel Alvarez does not dispute that his actions led to the tragic Metrolink train collision three years ago in which 11 people were killed and more than 180 injured. What he does contest is that he intended to harm anybody other than himself.
Derailment dumps coal cars into D.C. river A CSX freight train derailed on a bridge over the Anacostia River on Friday, dumping 10 rail cars carrying coal into the chilly water.
newsobserver.com | Shearon Harris: Train derailed at plantRail cars on a train carrying spent radioactive nuclear fuel derailed at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County Thursday at 6:57 p.m. But the nuclear waste sustained no damage and there were no injuries, according to Progress Energy.
Hundreds stuck in Tube derailmentHundreds of passengers have become stranded after a Tube train derailed during the morning rush-hour in London. Up to six carriages came off the rails on the westbound Central Line between Mile End and Bethnal Green stations at about 0900 BST.
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