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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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two Amtrak trains stopped amid delays after a car was hit by a train at a Halifax County rail crossing Sunday evening, ...