FILE - This Sept. 22, 1993, file photo shows the wreckage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited train, north of Mobile, Ala. A barge hit a railroad bridge and minutes later the train hit the bent tracks and ...

The terrible tragedy of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited last week, in which 43 passengers perished, is the latest bad chapter in a woeful history of an American enterprise. In 1991, 13 people lost their lives ...

A federal lawsuit that led to the seizure of two Amtrak locomotives has apparently hit the end of the line with an appeals court’s decision upholding a seven-figure judgment against the railroad.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the ...

After deliberating just over an hour Wednesday, a federal jury will try again today to determine whether Amtrak and the CSX rail company were at fault in the April 1992 collision and derailment of an ...

In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the steady rocking of ...

A U.S. District Court yesterday ordered 2,350 conductors and assistant conductors not to go on strike against Amtrak, sparing tens of thousands of rail passengers from being left at the gate today.

Amtrak officials have agreed to pay a $25,000 fine after an employee in Sanford in 1992 pumped contaminated water into a creek that feeds Lake Monroe, a state environmental official said Tuesday. The ...

Amtrak plans to begin using a high-speed, high-comfort train along the Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington in late 1992 or early 1993. Amtrak said it`s borrowing such such a train, the X2000, ...

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In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the steady rocking of ...