Train Crash

Recently surfaced dashcam footage shows a train hitting a van. The incident comes from Brook Park, Ohio where an AT&T service van is reported to have bypassed the railroad gate and getting stuck in the tracks.

Cameras captured a dramatic crash in the Czech Republic when a train hit a semi as the truck tried to cross the tracks in time.

Two train derailments in Wisconsin spilled fuel in the past few days. One released 1,000 gallons of crude oil, the other 18,000 gallons of ethanol.

A new analysis predicts oil, ethanol trains in US will derail 10 times a year over the next two decades, causing more than $4 billion in damage and possibly killing hundreds of people. There are moves to prevent this.

A train carrying ethanol crashed three weeks ago and spilled 55,000 gallons into the Mississippi river. The long-term effects are unknown.

A train crash in Iowa result in a fire and spills an unknown amount of ethanol into the Mississippi River near Dubuque.

Let this video be a lesson that no matter how small – or deserted – train tracks appear to be, you should never stop on them. The video was shot this week at Hermann Park in Houston, TX as families rode around the sprawling park in a scaled-down train. For some reason (we suspect waiting for a parking spot), the driver of this Honda Accord stopped on the tracks, and the train did not have enough time to stop as it rounded the corne

James Wood was recording a video of a passing Union Pacific because his four-year-old son has a fascination with trains. He wound up with dramatic footage of a puzzling accident at a Utah railroad crossing.

At least 40 passengers, including two Americans, were killed in a terrible crash of a Chinese bullet train on July 23. The "official" cause of the devastating crash was ruled a lightning strike, though reactions from authorities have raised doubts.