Earlier today, the web site for Houston television station KHOU reported a runaway train traveling through that city’s downtown area. Here’s their report: RUNAWAY TRAIN TRAVELS THROUGH DOWNTOWN HOUSTON HOUSTON...

Back in 2002, a Union Pacific coal train near Sharon Springs, Kansas, stopped when a journal bearing went bad causing the car near the middle of the train to derail....

Having traveled by train a great deal over the past couple of decades, it distresses me to read criticisms of Amtrak by newspaper and magazine columnists that are based on...

Matt Hannes photo News reports don’t always – no, make that almost never – tell the whole story. Case in point is the story of a difficult run made by...