FILE - This Sept. 22, 1993, file photo shows the wreckage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited train, north of Mobile, Ala. A barge hit a railroad bridge and minutes later the train hit the bent tracks and ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the ...

In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the steady rocking of ...

President Joe Biden loves to tell a story of an Amtrak conductor he once knew even though it has been repeatedly debunked. And on Monday, he told it twice — in an hour. During a meeting with Amtrak ...

A U.S. District Court yesterday ordered 2,350 conductors and assistant conductors not to go on strike against Amtrak, sparing tens of thousands of rail passengers from being left at the gate today.

The terrible tragedy of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited last week, in which 43 passengers perished, is the latest bad chapter in a woeful history of an American enterprise. In 1991, 13 people lost their lives ...

The nation’s worst train wreck in decades occurred seconds after a towboat pilot, lost in a predawn fog, mistook a railroad bridge for a barge then inadvertently rammed it just as Amtrak’s Sunset ...

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In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the steady rocking of ...