Oregon regulators fined a railroad company about $82,000 after its trestle bridge in Corvallis collapsed last January, causing a train derailment that dumped toxic chemicals into the river below.

U.S. railway safety officials issued an emergency order late Friday to toughen standards for securing unattended trains carrying hazardous materials, NBC News reported. The order, issued in the wake ...

Colin Hanington followed a plume of smoke to reach one of the deadliest railway crashes in Canadian history, and almost 40 ...

Just before six this morning, two Metrolink trains derailed in Glendale, after one hit a car left on the tracks by an intended suicide who changed his mind. At least 10 people are dead and scores are ...

Read full article: ‘I need to survive’: Hunt man says he stood on a meter box to survive Guadalupe River flooding Onlookers survey damage caused along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept ...

A fatal train crash described as one of Britain's worst ever rail disasters is set to be memorialised 120 years on. On 27 July 1905, a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express train from Liverpool to ...

EAST GREENBUSH/NASSAU — The Rensselaer train station became a de facto hospital that day as the dead and dying lay on the ground. A low moaning filled the room from the wounded punctuated by ...

The Abbots Ripton Railway Disaster took place on January 21, 1876, and saw a series of trains collide near the village, by Huntingdon, during severe weather. The Special Scotch Express train from ...

A specialized plane equipped with advanced sensors that the government deploys to chemical disasters could have helped authorities avoid needlessly blowing open five rail tank cars and burning their ...