Bones, likely to be human, have been recovered at a wartime undersea mine in western Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an accident in 1942, according to a Japanese ...

Unlike highway bridges, which are inspected by government agencies, railroad bridges are inspected by railroads themselves.

A U.S. railroad industry plan to rely more heavily on technology instead of humans to conduct routine track safety ...

FORNEY, Texas — A crash between a train and an 18-wheeler blocked intersections in the Downtown area of Forney Friday ...

In the past 6 months, railcars with hazardous materials passed the homes of at least 2.5 million people living within a mile ...

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

On the cloudless morning of Saturday, July 26, Dwight Steffanson, 69, from College Place, Washington, and Thomas Gladden, 68, ...

GORDON, Texas (AP) — Thirty-five cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday afternoon near a small Texas town, officials said. No injuries were reported and no evacuations have been ordered… ...

The Kern County coroner’s office has identified a 73-year-old pedestrian who was fatally struck by a vehicle while walking Aug. 2 in east Bakersfield. Bakersfield resident Antonio Rodriguez was ...