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

A new investigation finds railroad bridge safety across the U.S. is hamstrung by minimal government oversight and limited ...

A month after a train severed her right arm, surf instructor Elieah Boyd was discharged from the UCI Medical Center in Orange, where her arm was reattached in a 10-hour surgery. The 24-year-old ...

A semi-truck was stopped on railroad tracks in Forney, Texas, and a Union Pacific train slammed into it. Fortunately, no one ...

That meant the train was not obligated to follow federal safety rules that require high-hazard flammable trains, or HHFTs, to ...

Two Catlett firefighters died in 1989 crash with same train, the Amtrak Crescent, at same crossing while they were responding in their firetruck to a vehicle fire.

A month after a train severed her right arm, surf instructor Elieah Boyd was discharged from the hospital, where her arm was reattached in a 10-hour surgery.

A University of Maryland probe reveals 130,000 hazardous-cargo cars rolled past 2.5M residents in six months, yet most local ...

On Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1968 at 8:20 p.m., 17 cars of an eastbound 100-car Penn Central freight train derailed in Urbana. Seven ...

Officials confirmed that there were no hazardous material leaks in the area and Union Pacific noted that cleanup efforts were ...

Recent high-profile derailments, including the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio disaster, have kept public attention focused on railroad safety standards.