Train Disaster News

Commuters are bracing for a difficult trip around southwest Connecticut and to New York City beginning Monday as workers repair the Metro-North commuter rail line crippled by a derailment and crash.

Commuters facing long delays after a train collision disrupted their route along Connecticut's shoreline can look forward to easier traveling.

MOORE , Oklahoma - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.

Crews maneuver heavy machinery to clear the tracks after two trains collided early Monday morning, May 20.

The St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Department is still investigating the scene where a 45-year-old Potsdam man was struck by a locomotive Sunday night.

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Brooks, 58, of Staten Island, N.Y. had taken the train into Connecticut Friday to drop off donated prom dresses for Bassick and Central High School students in Bridgeport.

When the weather gets warm in Longmont, the windows open. The yard work starts. And the train horn complaints begin to pile up all over again.

Thousands of Connecticut commuters should brace for travel chaos on Monday as Metro-North workers repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line caused by the collision of two trains, officials warned on Sunday.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has a suggestion for commuters who manage to make it to work in New York City from southwest Connecticut: You might want to stay put in the Big Apple - all week.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

A second body has been discovered in the remains of a terraced house which was destroyed by a suspected gas blast.

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. As investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board continue their review of Friday's Metro-North train crash, they are looking at what role a fractured rail joint may have played in the accident, according to board member Earl Weener.

CHP is on scene at an accident near 170 Quarry Road and Carpenteria Road. Officers got the call of the big rig and Amtrak collision around 12:45 p.m. The Amtrak conductor told CHP the big rig was driving westbound on Quarry Road when it took a right turn onto a private road, that's when it hit the train.

Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left dozens injured.

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During rush hour in Connecticut, two commuter trains collided, sending 72 passengers to the hospital.

The work to rebuild the damaged tracks and overhead wires at the scene of the train derailment in Fairfield County "is a significant undertaking that could take days to complete," a statement from Metro-North officials said Saturday.

Malloy said during a Friday night press conference near the scene of Friday's train collision.