Every three hours on average, somewhere in the country, a vehicle or a pedestrian is hit by a train. That’s eight a day … every day … day after day!...
I guess that the editors of The Onion, the satyrical publication, would consider it a touchdown scored whenever one of their “stories” is mistaken for legitimate news and causes a...
I hate writing about this — about people being killed by trains — but it’s still happening and, unfortunately, the trend that saw a decline for a while seems to...
For years now, whenever I travel on one of Amtrak’s long-distance trains, I carry a scanner. It’s a device that can pick up radio transmissions among the operating crew members...