Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Train Hits Pickup Truck in Pennslyvania

  Shannon Weidemann | April 04, 2008 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A freight train hit a pickup truck that was trying to beat the train at a railway crossing. The train accident happened in Monaca, Pennslyvania last night. The driver of the truck was injured and...

• Indianapolis Train Accident Injures Two

  Shannon Weidemann | January 08, 2008 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A train accident in Indianapolis on Sunday morning derailed 35 train cars and injured two workers. The conductor and engineer on the train were both injured. It is believed that their injuries were not serious. The train accident happened in a rail yard on the west side of the city.Wayne Township Fire Department Captain Troy Wymer says the accident happened early Sunday morning when 112 cars...

• Train Injures Man in West Palm Beach

  Shannon Weidemann | March 12, 2008 8:38 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A car crossing the railroad tracks at Riverside Drive and Alternate A1A was hit by a FEC train on Saturday. The train accident happened in West Palm Beach. The 27-year-old driver of the car was injured in the accident. The victim was attempting to cross west over the tracks at about 3:20 a.m., in his silver 2001 four-door Audi when it was struck by a southbound FEC train. He is listed in...

• Union Station Train Accident Injures Seven

  Shannon Weidemann | February 08, 2008 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A train accident at Union Station in Washington D.C. involving a commuter train and an Amtrak locomotive injured seven people on Thursday. The MARC commuter train from Baltimore had just arrived and passengers were disembarking when it was struck by the locomotive. The six-car MARC train 419 had come to a stop at its usual platform at 10:03 a.m. yesterday when an Amtrak locomotive assigned to...

• Huntington Pedestrian Killed by Train

  Shannon Weidemann | November 28, 2007 1:04 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man walking across a train crossing was struck and killed by a train on Monday morning. The train accident happened in Huntington. Crossing gates were down and signals were flashing at the time. The train was unable to stop in time. The pedestrian, identified so far only as being male, was struck by the 11:37 a.m. train from Port Jefferson to Hicksville. The accident occurred at...

• Deadly accident when train and tanker collide

  Staff Writer | February 19, 2007 11:16 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Yesterday in northern Alabama a fatal train-truck accident occurred when a propane delivery truck collided with a train on Wilhite Road near exit 318 of I-65. Apparently the truck crashed into the train after it ran off the road, igniting a tremendous fire and killing the driver of the tanker. The accident did not happen at the crossing. It is not known whether the crossing lights and gates were...

• Train Kills Man in New Jersey

  Shannon Weidemann | December 18, 2007 8:28 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An 87-year-old man was killed while driving over a train crossing in Waterford Township, New Jersey on Tuesday. The train accident occured while the NJ Transit train was en route from Philadelphia to Atlantic City when it struck the vehicle. The man drove around the crossing gates and was trying to beat the train. None of 62 passengers aboard the train were injured. They were transferred to...

• Berkeley Pedestrian Killed by Amtrak Train

  Shannon Weidemann | November 16, 2007 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man walking across some train tracks in Berkeley was killed by an Amtrak train. The train accident happened early this morning. The man was not using a marked crossing to cross the train tracks. The California Zephyr train was headed east and was near the Berkeley Amtrak station, located at University Avenue and Third Street, at 8:12 a.m. when the accident happened, said Amtrak...

• Train accident kills farm worker

  Staff Writer | March 19, 2007 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  An unusual train accident occurred Friday afternoon in Limestone County, where a farm worker operating a fertilizer spreader collided with a freight train in Belle Mina at Greenbrier Road.The victim was a Limestone Farmer's Cooperative employee and Clements firefighter, and he died immediately. An article in the Decatur Daily includes quotes from many of the victim's friends, as he was...

• Kentucky train crash causes explosion, damage

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2007 5:57 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Just south of Louisville, in Bullitt County, yesterday, a train derailed, causing a major explosion and chemical fire. This is the second Kentucky train derailment in two days to cause a fire and extensive damage.Kentucky authorities closed a portion of nearby I-65 and evacuated homes, businesses and schools in the area. "We've got several chemicals there and to our knowledge that's an irritant...