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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

March 15, 1999: An Amtrak passenger train collided with a truck on the tracks and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The collision killed 11 people and more than 100 were injured.

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 ...

Over the past decade, three Amtrak derailments have resulted in 14 passenger deaths, including Saturday’s crash in Montana.

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 ...

In a report, the passenger rail line’s inspector general notes a “weak safety culture.” ...

From 2006 to 2014, Amtrak saw only five deaths due to train accidents, according to safety data from the Federal Railroad Administration.

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 ...