Around 1:30 p.m. Wheaton officials said a freight train struck a vehicle, and blocked multiple crossings. Washington street ...

WASHINGTON — New regulations were just approved Tuesday, requiring a two-person minimum crew on all freight trains. The announcement comes from the Biden-Harris Administration, the Department of ...

Wheaton residents were forced to find alternate routes after a freight train struck a vehicle Monday, blocking nearly every ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Thirty percent of all the items transported in the U.S. is shipped by train – and come Friday, those trains could stop dead in their tracks.

"Amtrak operates almost all of our 21,000 route miles outside the Northeast Corridor (NEC) on track owned, maintained, and dispatched by freight railroads," said Marc Magliari, an Amtrak spokesman.

Federal safety investigators and some members of Congress want to expand special safety rules that apply to trains carrying ...

Amtrak has canceled all long-distance trains nationwide starting Thursday, as it prepares for a possible freight-rail strike that would impact its service and further disrupt the supply chain.

Freight trains are plying Maine's rail system in larger numbers and sizes, and the state has a new plan to make sure we have adequate tracks and infrastructure. Let's hope it's enough.