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For two months this holiday season, an empty jewelry store in midtown Manhattan has been magically transformed into a toy train shop, complete with a Christmas tree and electric engines chugging along miniature tracks. Complete Story...
A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down an unarmed man on New Year's Day.
The surveillance video needs no narration to convey the panic. A subway train stops at a platform. A little boy with a backpack gets off, holding the hand of a man behind him. But before the man can exit the train, the door closes.
An Amtrak passenger train hit a car trying to cross the tracks near the South Carolina-Georgia state line and four people have been killed.
A speeding train derailed in western India, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80.
Police said a highly intoxicated man who survived when multiple freight train cars rolled over him is "the luckiest guy alive." Police Major Kevin Lemke said Canadian National Railway employees reported they ran over someone lying between the tracks and did an emergency stop about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
A high-speed train derailed in western Turkey on Friday, news reports said. There were no reports of injuries.
A passenger train rammed into a cargo train outside of the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing 10 people including an infant, officials said.
A Spanish judge on Monday indicted seven people for allegedly helping several of the suspected Madrid train bombers flee after the 2004 terror attacks.
The surveillance video makes your blood run cold. A young mother on a train platform lets go of the stroller holding her 6-month-old son for an instant. As if nudged by an unseen hand, the stroller rolls toward the tracks a few feet away. As the woman scrambles desperately to recapture her precious cargo, the stroller topples off the platform and lands upside-down on the tracks — just as a train rolls into the station at 20 mph.
Grim news hit this university town in late October just two days before a PTA forum on teenage stress: Another Palo Alto teen had died after stepping in front of a commuter train, the fourth such suicide in less than six months.
Police say a woman pushing a stroller across railroad tracks in western Pennsylvania was struck by a train and both she and her 2-year-old son died.
An errant water buffalo caused two Egyptian passenger trains to collide at high speed south of Cairo, killing 18 people and wounding 39, the Health Ministry announced Sunday in a revised toll.
A passenger train in northern India crashed into another train's rear carriage reserved for women and disabled passengers, killing 22 people and injuring 16 who remained trapped for hours Wednesday near Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal, police said.
Seems the airlines aren’t the only ones suffering from a decline in business travel.
Authorities say three people have been killed and another person critically injured after the car they were riding in collided with a passenger train in southern Mississippi.
Officials say a man who appeared to be drunk fell onto train tracks at a New Jersey subway station just before a train ran over him — and he walked away unharmed.
Power problems stalled trains between Washington and New York, causing rush-hour delays along the busy Northeast Corridor.
One of Australia's most popular tourist trains, The Ghan, derailed after hitting a cow in the Outback, train company officials said Monday.
A judge has agreed to move the trial for a former transit officer charged in the killing of an unarmed man.
A 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his mother let go for an instant.
A commuter rail agency agreed to pay about $30 million to settle most of the lawsuits from a derailment that killed 11 people and injured another 180 after a driver trying to commit suicide parked his gas-drenched SUV on the tracks, attorneys said Wednesday.
An Alameda County judge gave no indication when he would rule on a bid to have the murder trial of a former transit officer charged in the killing of an unarmed man moved out of the area.
A train derailed during heavy rains Monday near Thailand's coastal city of Hua Hin, killing 7 people, including a 2-year-old girl, and injuring 88 others, officials said.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train hauling coal in Wyoming has derailed, marking the second time within 24 hours that trains belonging to the railway company went off the tracks.
Subway carries 3-year-old boy's dad awayIt's a parent's nightmare: In Portland, Ore., a malfunctioning subway door closed, carrying a 3-year-old boy's father away before he could follow his son out of the car. Happily, a Good Samaritan tended the tot until his dad returned.
Subway carries 3-year-old boy's dad awayIt's a parent's nightmare: In Portland, Ore., a malfunctioning subway door closed, carrying a 3-year-old boy's father away before he could follow his son out of the car. Happily, a Good Samaritan tended the tot until his dad returned.
Four killed in car-train crash in S.C.Four people, including a 12-year-old, died when an Amtrak train hit their car in Hardeeville, South Carolina, an official said Tuesday.
World's Luckiest Train Track Inspector (video)You're working on the rails. Checking the track. Just another day at the office... What can possibly go wrong?
Woman Who Fell On Tracks 'Grateful, Humiliated'BOSTON -- The woman who narrowly escaped being run over by a subway train after she fell on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tracks last Friday said she is grateful that people were looking out for her safety and she's also humiliated.
Hump plans to raise rail platformA specially designed hump is to be installed on a rural station's platform to get rid of the half-metre (18in) gap passengers have to step up from.
Train woman's narrow escapeA young woman had a close call in Boston, U.S. when she fell on to subway tracks, in the path of an approaching train. Other passengers alerted the train driver who managed to stop the train in time.
Man Honored For Stopping Train Before Hitting WomanBOSTON -- An MBTA driver who stopped an Orange Line train moments before it struck a woman who fell onto the tracks at North Station was honored Monday.
Naked man hit by train, arrestedA young Stafford man was arrested last night in connection with an incident during which he was running around naked and got hit by a slow-moving train, police said. Sheriff's spokesman Bill Kennedy said the subsequent investigation revealed that the 18-year-old suspect had ea …
Buffett Bets Big on Railroads' FutureDid Warren Buffett just corner the railroad market? Nah. He says he bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe because he likes to play with trains.
Baby injured in CTA stroller accident - 11/03A stroller with a baby inside was trapped in the doors of a CTA Red Line train. As the train pulled out, the child fell down onto the tracks. The child did not land on the electrified third rail.
Fan dressed as sheep set alightA 24-year-old football fan dressed as a sheep suffered serious burns to his arms and legs when he was set alight on a train in Fife. Aberdeen fans said the man ran through the carriage on fire as others threw beer on him to douse the flames.
NJ subway train rolls over man, who escapes unhurtOfficials say a man who appeared to be drunk fell onto train tracks at a New Jersey subway station just before a train ran over him — and he walked away unharmed.
Baby hit by train and survives - video releasedDramatic security video released on Friday captures the miraculous survival of a six-month-old boy, whose stroller rolled onto the tracks at an Australian railway station and was struck by an oncoming train.
Baby survives after falling under train Babys stroller rolls off a platform as train approaches
Amazing escape for baby that fell under trainA six-month-old baby fell beneath a train as its pushchair rolled off a station platform in Melbourne - but survived with just a bump to its head.
Man survives being harpooned by seven steel rodsTrain worker Zhao Weihua, 29, is counting himself rail lucky after he survived being harpooned by seven steel bars when they fell from a crane.
Train drags half-naked mooner along tracksBERLIN - A German man mooning railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
Butt-flashing boozer dragged 200 metres while stuck to train A drunk young man was dragged 200 metres after pressing his bare buttocks to a departing train window to insult a ticket inspector who had just thrown him off, police reported on Monday.
Hundreds flee in Eurostar panic as live wire collapsesPassengers disembarking a Eurostar train were forced to flee in terror as a live overhead cable fell inches from them. The high voltage cable collapsed as the 5.13pm train from Paris to London drew into platform nine at St Pancras International yesterday.
One dead in Oklahoma City after car and train collisionA woman died after she drove a car through a dead-end barrier and struck a train in south Oklahoma City.
Woman Injured After Being Struck By Train -A 23-year-old woman was struck in the head by a train Thursday night after getting too close to the track, police said.
Engineer 'Misjudges' Track; 20 Riders Hurt In Crash Twenty people were injured when the Framingham/Worcester Line commuter train No. 512 hit a barrier at South Station in Boston at about 9:08 a.m. Tuesday.
Train Hits South Station Barricade; 16 HurtBOSTON -- More than a dozen people were injured Tuesday when a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter train hit a barrier at South Station in Boston.
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