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A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said, "All of you sons of bitches who want off, get the hell off now, cause this is the last stop! And all of...

About 1,000 people are expected to pack a Lac-Mégantic church this morning for a memorial service, three weeks after a train derailment devastated the Quebec town. More...

Disaster workers found the remains of four more victims on Thursday in the red zone in Lac-Mégantic, Que., where a train carrying crude oil derailed and set off a series of explosions more than a week ago. More...

A Toronto police marine unit was sent in tonight to rescue people on a commuter train that had become stranded on tracks with water up to the windows, after a record rainfall pounded the city and slowed the evening commute. More...

A train carrying what emergency officials say could be diesel fuel has derailed on Calgary's Bonnybrook Bridge over the Bow River. The bridge had been dropping, but seems to have stabilized. More...

New York City police said Sunday they were seeking a man who allegedly started a fight with another man who wound up dead after being hit by a train. The unidentified suspect allegedly got into an argument with Joshua Basin, 20, of the Queens borough's Howard Beach neighborhood while riding the...

AP - The driver of an SUV veered around a crossing arm and ignored flashing warning lights before the vehicle was struck by a light-rail train in Sacramento on Saturday, killing an infant and two adults, authorities said. More...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Wednesday it hasn't found evidence to confirm a priest's report that at least 80 Central American migrants were kidnapped from a freight train last week. Interior Department Deputy Secretary Rene Zenteno said two witnesses from Honduras and...

SPARKS, Nev. Two truck drivers and a train engineer watched helplessly as a semitrailer skidded the length of a football field before it smashed through crossing gates and into two double-decker cars of an Amtrak train at a highway crossing, killing at least six people. The drivers were...

(CNN) -- Six people were killed when a tractor-trailer truck slammed into a Chicago-to-California Amtrak passenger train at a railroad crossing east of Reno, Nevada, authorities said late Saturday. The death toll was released just as federal authorities said they were trying to account for...

(CNN) -- A semi collided with an Amtrak train east of Reno, Nevada, on Friday, killing two people, officials said. The truck crashed into the side of the train at a public railroad crossing, according to Amtrak. Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Danny Lopez said two people died in the accident...

(CNN) -- A team of federal investigators has been dispatched to the scene of a truck-train collision east of Reno, Nevada, that killed at least two people, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The investigators were expected to arrive in Nevada late Friday night, hours after a...

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Friends of a teenager who was hit and killed by a passenger train on the weekend say they are in shock. Steven Proulx, 13, died instantly while trying to cross the tracks on his all-terrain vehicle near Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, southwest of Quebec City. Proulx's friend Jimmy Trepanier said the...

Friends of a teenager who was hit and killed by a passenger train on the weekend say they are in shock. Steven Proulx, 13, died instantly while trying to cross the tracks on his all-terrain vehicle near Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, southwest of Quebec City. Proulx's friend Jimmy Trepanier said the...

AHMADABAD, India – An Indian court sentenced 11 Muslims to death Tuesday after finding them guilty of setting fire to a train in which 60 Hindus were killed nine years ago, an act that triggered one of India's worst outbursts of communal violence. The 11 were among the 31 Muslims who were...

AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) – An Indian court on Tuesday convicted 31 people on conspiracy and murder charges over a deadly train fire in 2002 that triggered anti-Muslim rioting in which 2,000 people were killed. The unrest, some of the worst religious violence in India since independence, was...

Candian Pacific Railway is investigating why 19 train left the track near Vulcan, Alta. Tuesday morning. Most of the cars were empty and carried no dangerous substances, said CP Rail. The engines remained on the track. Nobody was hurt in the derailment. Vulcan Fire Department, RCMP, CP Rail...

-- A Boston-bound Amtrak train derailed Monday afternoon just east of New York City's Penn Station, the rail service said. No injuries were reported among the approximately 147 passengers and an unspecified number of crew members, Amtrak said in a news release. It called the accident, which...

A search is on in Europe for six-year-old twin girls who went missing after their Toronto-born father's body was found at a southern Italian train station. Matthias Schepp, 43, and his daughters Alessia and Livia had been living in Switzerland, freelance reporter Megan Williams told CBC News...