Authorities said it appears they may have been a brake-setting problem, which caused the train car to get loose. The National Transportation Safety Board will look into the cause of the runaway ...

For a time Wednesday morning, the difference between disaster and a normal day in Las Vegas was hitched to a runaway train tanker loaded with hazardous chlorine gas. The tanker, which escaped the ...

The train car became unhitched at about 12:50 p.m. PST, and authorities rushed to block intersections as the empty car continued west, KEPR-TV reported.

The train car became unhitched at about 12:50 p.m. PST, and authorities rushed to block intersections as the empty car continued west, KEPR-TV reported.

Aug. 18, 1953 Runaway rail cars travel 271/2 miles through area Sixteen Delaware & Hudson rail cars filled with 600 tons of coal went for a wild ride stretching from Carbondale to Yatesville. A… ...

IRVINE, Ky. — Four runaway rail cars struck a parked locomotive in east-central Kentucky Monday, causing a fire and chemical release that prompted a limited evacuation and orders that others ...

The car followed a track that parallels Riverside Drive on the south side of the Lehigh River. The car activated crossing signals along the route, keeping the public safe from the runaway rail car ...

COMMERCE, Calif. -- A line of train cars broke loose in a switching yard and rolled more than 30 miles before workers derailed them to avoid a potential disaster in Los Angeles, launching tons of ...

The last thing you’d expect a railroad coal car to do is take flight. But one tried in August 1926 at the John B. Hull & Son fuel business on upper Main Street in Great Barrington. Hull in 1900, ...

1913: Runaway train: "A string of cars on the Lehigh & New England Railroad, minus an engine, got beyond control of two brakemen and a conductor in the yards of that company at Bangor this morning ...