March 9, 2017
A freight train crashed into a bus full of Texas tourists visiting Gulf Coast casinos, killing four in Biloxi, Mississippi. Forty people were hurt, seven critically. The cause of the Tuesday afternoon crash remains under investigation. Witnesses told Mississippi news …
October 23, 2014
Federal regulators are set to release their final report in a fiery 2013 crash between a freight train and a dump truck that caused an explosive derailment and rattled homes a half-mile away. Police have said the truck driver who …
September 5, 2013
CSX Corp. says the derailment of two of its freight trains in the Mohawk Valley earlier this summer was caused by operator error. The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports that CSX recently posted its internal investigation into the June 27 …
June 20, 2013
An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his life, underwent several corrective procedures in the years leading up to the crash and even complained that …
May 30, 2013
A chemical-carrying freight train collided with a garbage truck, derailed and exploded at a rail crossing outside Baltimore, causing fires that were under control by Wednesday morning, authorities said. In the third serious derailment in the United States this month, …