At 51 miles per hour, chasing down a runaway train was surprisingly the easy part. The hard part was catching it without sending the whole thing off the rails. On May 15, 2001, a CSX locomotive known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's speeding too fast for anyone to grab hold and leap aboard, though several have tried. It has kicked aside a heavy metal ...

An interim report into a runaway coal train incident in the Hunter Valley has found the three locomotives and 96 wagons reached speeds well over the safe limit, and only came to a halt after rolling ...

A coal train locomotive has derailed in the NSW Upper Hunter less than two weeks after a runaway unmanned train operated by the same company reached 90 kilometres per hour. The Australian Rail Track ...

The small town of Akron, in Colorado, USA, has made few appearances in the annals of history. It was founded as an unnamed construction camp on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) in the ...

DENVER — A string of runaway rail cars spilled beer in downtown Denver Wednesday after they crashed into a parked locomotive and derailed. No one was hurt, and the railroad's mainline operations were ...

IRVINE, Ky. — Four runaway rail cars struck a parked locomotive in east-central Kentucky Monday, causing a fire and chemical release that prompted a limited evacuation and orders that others stay ...

IRVINE, KY. — Four runaway rail cars struck two parked locomotives Monday in east-central Kentucky, causing a fire and a chemical spill that triggered a limited evacuation and orders that others stay ...

The Federal Transit Administration has ordered “an immediate safety standdown” at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority affecting all workers who operate or secure out-of-service trains at ...

A second Pacific National coal train is being examined after a derailment just weeks after a runaway train incident on the same freight track. The lead wheel, or bogie, of the locomotive derailed just ...