New video shows an Amtrak passenger train colliding with a semi truck at a railroad crossing in Gilpin County. It's about 40 ...

More: Amtrak train on wrong track collides with freight train; 2 dead, 116 injured The crash is the latest in a series of high-profile incidents involving passenger trains, including at least ...

But despite several fatal accidents in recent years and complaints of unreliable service, Amtrak remains popular in Congress and with travelers — 31.7 million passengers took trips last year.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX ...

Connecting plenty of those locations is America's favorite rail operator: the one and only Amtrak (that said, a surprising ...

An Amtrak train that collided with a freight train in South Carolina on Sunday, killing two people and injured more than 100, is the latest in a string of major crashes involving the passenger ...

The Amtrak passenger train that derailed on Monday south of Tacoma, Wash., was traveling on tracks that were equipped with technology to prevent accidents, but the safety feature was not activated ...

Amtrak pays for accidents it didn't cause because of secretive agreements negotiated between the passenger rail company, which receives more than $1 billion annually in federal subsidies, and the ...

Amtrak's rate is higher than that of commuter railroads, but not by much. From 2006 to 2014, Amtrak saw an average of two accidents per million miles. On the nation's commuter railroads, that ...

Five months ago, in a scathing report on a 2016 accident in which two track workers were killed, U.S. safety investigators urged Amtrak to slow its trains when they pass work crews. The nation’s ...

An Amtrak train moves along the track at Penn Station in New York, on July, 7, 2017. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg Amtrak cut its annual operating losses by nearly half last year while improving customer ...