In 1989, a runaway freight train tore through a California neighborhood in one of America’s most shocking rail disasters. This documentary uncovers how the train lost control, the devastation it left ...

Freight trains are getting longer in the U.S. with some stretching for two or three miles. Longer trains allow for more goods to move more efficiently, lowering fuel costs for the railroads. But these ...

Two Canadian Pacific Railway freight train cars derailed in Franklin Park on Sunday afternoon. No one was injured, the company said, and the tracks were cleared within hours. About 12:45 p.m., two ...

A freight train derailed in Matteson, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on Thursday, prompting some residents within a mile of the crash to evacuate their homes. FOX 32 in Chicago reported that a ...

A freight train collided with a semi-truck transporting a military vehicle in South Carolina with witnesses describing the sound of the crash as "a bomb going off," Reuters reported. The freight train ...

Mexican authorities blocked dozens of migrants from hitching a ride to the U.S. on freight trains in Mexico City on Friday in a major new enforcement effort. Thousands of people have used the freight ...

ATLACOMULCO, Mexico (AP) — A freight train sheared a double-decker bus in half at a crossing northwest of Mexico City early Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 40, authorities ...

In the most recent robbery on January 13, a group of 11 suspects — 10 of whom were in the country illegally — cut an air brake hose from a BNSF freight train as it rolled through a secluded area of ...