Train Disaster News

Here's a look at the police log for June 15 and June 16. Saturday, June 15 1:25 a.m., Main Street.

Orange flames lick at the roof of the coal mine, heat building and visibility dropping as smoke begins to fill the underground passageway.

A man hit by a freight train under a Palmerston North overbridge was lying unconscious on the tracks when struck, a coroner has found.

A man died after jumping in front of a BART train at the Hayward station Tuesday afternoon causing major disruptions to service, BART and Hayward fire officials said The person was hit by a northbound train at 4:18 p.m., BART police Lt.

The driver of one of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year, killing three railroad workers, had complained that he couldn't distinguish between red and green signals, an investigator told the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday.

The family of Jackleen Lane said she told them she was going to the Shelby County Fair on Saturday, but never called or came home.

A Metro-North student traffic controller and his supervisor were suspended without pay after a track foreman was fatally struck by a train last month, a railroad spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Ashland County authorities say a La Crosse doctor and his brother were killed in a single-engine plane crash on Madeline Island.

The Clark County Sheriff's Department says the driver was the sole occupant in the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.

An investigator says the driver of a Union Pacific Railroad train that failed to comply with slow and stop signals before a deadly 2012 accident in the Oklahoma Panhandle had complained of failing eyesight in recent years.

Patrick Bray, a 51-year-old worker on the Blanchette Bridge rehabilitation project, was preparing this month for his retirement.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.

Tuesday may end up being an ordinary day for most, but for any West citizen who hasn't registered with FEMA for individual disaster assistance, its crunch time.

MUNCIE -- A pedestrian was killed after she was struck by a moving train in Muncie late Monday morning.

Virginia State Police arrested Farley in April. His charges include one count of indecent liberties with a child and six counts of proposing sex through a computer system.

Police in Waterford have arrested a man for allegedly driving while intoxicated after he drove his car down railroad tracks and it became stuck.

Carlisle police said several calls about a fight in the 400 block of N. Pitt Street were followed by a report of shots fired Sunday night.

Cambodia is littered with old bits of infrastructure from the French occupation and colonization, including a whole bunch of train tracks.

Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai and the adjoining Thane district, causing water-logging in the city and the suburbs and hitting suburban train services on the central line as the tracks were flooded.

No Filipino was killed or injured when two passenger trains collided in Buenos Aires, Argentina last Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.