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A Kansas tractor trailer driver and several cattle were injured in a crash with a train at a railroad crossing on US Highway ...

The train's collision with a pickup, despite safety signals, highlights ongoing regional rail safety concerns. Officials urge ...

The heavy haul trucking company whose rig was stopped on a grade crossing and struck by a Union Pacific Z-train a year ago, ...

The Federal Railroad Administration on Thursday issued a pair of safety alerts related to recent grade crossing accidents that killed railroaders or motorists. In a safety advisory, the FRA emphasized ...

It likely will be months before we know definitively the cause of the fatal Oct. 23 collisions between a pickup truck and a ...

A train and a truck collided Tuesday at a Baltimore County railroad crossing that some have called dangerous, following at least seven crashes since a devastating 2013 explosion. Tuesday's collision ...

On Wednesday in Irvington, Ala., a community about 20 miles southwest of Mobile, an eastbound Amtrak train heading from New ...

Penn Township supervisors have voted to add safety measures at a railroad crossing where two trucks collided with trains in separate incidents in June. On Monday, the Penn Township Board of ...

Fourteen corn-carrying wagons were lying on their side after the derailment, which was caused by the train hitting a truck that was crossing the railway lines. The rail operator said that, under the ...

IRVINGTON, Ala. ( WALA) - Heart-stopping surveillance video captured the moment an Amtrak train slammed into the back of a ...

Police in Selma are investigating the circumstances around a crash between a pick-up truck and an Amtrak train that left at ...