Freight trains have grown longer over the past two decades, blocking highways, delaying passenger trains and increasing the potential for derailments as regulatory safeguards have lagged, a new ...

A freight train derailed in Iowa, causing about three dozen cars to pile up. The freight train operated by Union Pacific derailed around 5 p.m. local time Monday east of Glidden, Iowa, Union Pacific ...

Several tanker cars on a freight train derailed Friday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on the South Side of ...

A Union Pacific (UP) freight train derailed around 6 am Monday morning on the east end of the Steel Bridge, halting all travel across the bridge for more than four hours. While the bridge reopened to ...

TRAX lines were disrupted Thursday morning after a freight train derailed, Utah Transit Authority spokesman Gavin Gustafson ...

Several BNSF Railway train cars carrying what appeared to be corn derailed along the border of Glacier National Park about 2 miles east of the Goat Lick area Saturday. Crews were working to right the ...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (CBS) -- A car hauler truck hung into a railroad crossing while stuck in traffic in Plainfield early Monday evening, and ended up getting hit by a freight train. Plainfield police ...

The biggest freight trains on Earth are built for extreme distances and heavy cargo. Here are five record-setters and the ...

The U.S. has no federal limit on freight train length, leaving the cost-conscious rail industry free to experiment with giants like the 3.5-mile, nine-locomotive behemoth that chugged from Texas to ...

MIAMI — A freight train struck and killed a pedestrian on Thursday in Miami-Dade County, police said. Police officers and fire rescue personnel responded to the tracks near Northeast 26 Avenue and 186 ...