Review of rail passenger service between Chicago and Florida including the return of the Amtrak Floridian in 2024 ...

The locomotive upset, and the baggage and first passenger car ran into it, badly smashing both. The second car also ran off the track. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

ELDORA — A train hit the rear of a car Thursday morning ... a.m. failed to yield at a railroad crossing while a train heading north made contact with the rear passenger side of the car ...

The Illinois Central bought several dome coaches from ... nomenclature has survived the Budd Co.'s exit from the railroad passenger-car business. In retrospect, the Burlington Route embraced ...

The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Central Oklahoma wins a USDOT grant to evaluate ... The project, funded through USDOT’s Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) grant program, “will analyze ...

According to arrest reports, officers found Jordan’s blue Lamborghini SUV damaged and stuck on railroad tracks ... and the ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

For example, in the 1860s, the Central Pacific ... died coupling cars or working on tracks. However, workers bore the brunt of the danger. "In 1890, about one in every 300 railroad workers was ...

In this case, the surviving railroad also adopted the paint scheme of the cars’ original owner. The Illinois Central bought several dome coaches from the Missouri Pacific and repainted them into IC’s ...

The flight data and voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered after the midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in the Washington, DC, area, the National ...

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