Two and a half years after a train derailment in Ohio, major freight railroads have not joined a federal program aimed at ...

On 30 July 1984, a routine high‑speed train from Edinburgh to Glasgow derailed with terrifying force - when a cow strayed onto the track. The collision shattered carriages, claimed 13 lives, and ...

On the warm summer night, the quiet town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, was shattered by one of Canada’s deadliest rail disasters. A runaway freight train carrying over two million gallons of crude oil ...

The deadly train derailment in Quebec this weekend is set to bring intense scrutiny to the dramatic growth in North America of shipping crude oil by rail, a century-old practice unexpectedly ...

A string of train accidents involving crude oil shipments in the U.S. and Canada is causing uneasiness in Spokane and other communities bisected by railways. And the safety of rail cars and ...

Could a disaster to the extent of the East Palestine train derailment happen in Pittsburgh? Panelist, Glenn Olcerst, with Rail Pollution Project Pittsburgh (RP3), said, in his opinion, it could.

Eleven Egyptian railway officials were acquitted of negligence charges in the country's worst rail disaster, which killed 361 people in February when flames ripped through a crowded train.