It wasn’t the start envisioned for Amtrak’s first commercial runs east and west across the Mississippi Coast in 20 years, as issues put the new Mardi Gras trains late getting to New Orleans and Mobile ...

FORT MADISON, Iowa. (KWQC) - Lee County Emergency Management officials say an empty freight train was derailed in Tuesday night’s storms. A BNSF train was blown over by the storm near 239th Avenue, ...

In late July, the Department of Justice took up a cause it hadn’t touched since the late 1970s: It sued a freight railroad for delaying Amtrak trains. In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that on tracks ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the ...

Railroad officials said Thursday it's unclear how much ethanol has leaked into the Mississippi River from the train, but that they were working to monitor the environmental impact and offload fuel ...