Question: What happens eight or nine times a day, kills more than 250 people a year, and injures almost 850 more? . Answer: trains hitting cars or trucks at railroad...
On this final leg of my trip I am on Amtrak’s Train #1, the westbound Sunset Limited in “the 30-car”.That’s Amtrak Speak for the sleeping car closest to the dining...
Florida East Coast Railway has been around for some 130 years. It ran passenger trains from Miami up the Atlantic Coast of Florida until the mid-1960s when, like the other...
The other day I came across a news item about someone getting hit by a train. I’m afraid I don’t remember if the person was walking on the tracks or...