The operator of Amtrak’s Downeaster says the Boston-to-Portland service is safe, despite the most serious accident in the nine-year history of the service. On Monday, a truck driver was killed after his rig hauling garbage skidded into the path of …
Authorities and witnesses say an Amtrak train smashed into a tractor-trailer in Maine, causing an explosion that set both on fire and sent flames more than three stories high. Steve McCausland from the Maine Department of Public Safety says the …
A trucking firm that employed a driver who hit the side of an Amtrak train in a fatal crash in the Nevada desert was sued Wednesday on behalf of two victims. William Knox, 71, of Seward, Neb., sued for a …
Investigators struggled Monday to piece together how a truck driver who plowed into an Amtrak train in the Nevada desert failed to notice the crossing gates and blinking lights that should have been visible a half-mile away. At least six …