Rail workers two seconds from disaster in shocking 78mph near-miss on train line. Track staff in the wrong location were ‘obscured from the driver’s view’ due to heavy rain ...

Amtrak uses 21,000 miles of track owned by the freight rail operators involved in union negotiations. The rail worker strike would "significantly impact intercity passenger rail service," Amtrak said.

Railroad companies filled the labor void by hiring Mexican workers. Between 1880 and 1930, Mexican track workers made up nearly two-thirds of the track labor force in the Southwest, Great Plains ...

When train travel expanded into Illinois in the 1800s, ... Crews might be able to lay 10 miles of track a day, he added. White rail workers supervised Latino members of track-laying crews.

Legislation strengthening workplace protections for railroad yardmasters was reintroduced by U.S. Reps. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) ...

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said that 56-year-old Fredrick Anderson, of Waterville, was struck by a CSX train that was traveling south on an active rail track near Latcha Road and Cummings Road ...

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said that 56-year-old Fredrick Anderson, of Waterville, was struck by a CSX train that was traveling south on an active rail track near Latcha Road and Cummings Road ...