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New data on Amtrak’s locomotive and passenger car fleets found that the system is increasingly reliant on aging equipment, even as availability rates remain relatively stable.
On a warm June night in 1918, the sleepy community of Ivanhoe, Indiana, was the backdrop of one of the deadliest railroad disasters in the county’s history: The Hammond circus train wreck.
The United Kingdom’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released an interim report on the Oct. 21, 2024, collision between two passenger trains near Talerddig, Powys, in Wales.
On a November evening in 1891, tragedy struck when a Western & Atlantic passenger train was derailed between Atlanta and Smyrna, and sabotage was likely to blame for the wreck.
Shortly before Christmas in 1923, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway’s southbound Dixie Limited passenger train derailed after passing the station in Kennesaw, Georgia.
