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Video from a nearby business captured the terrifying moments Saturday when an Amtrak train slammed into the front end of an SUV in Andover, Massachusetts.

An SUV was struck by an Amtrak train Saturday in Andover, Massachusetts, injuring one woman — and it was all caught on camera. Andover police say they responded to the incident on Pearson Street at Railroad Street around 9:20 a.m. and found a BMW X1 with significant front-end damage. One woman was taken to Lawrence General Hospital with minor injuries,…

A person was killed by an Amtrak train at an Andover, Massachusetts, rail crossing after they’d waited for another train to pass going the other way on Thursday, officials said. The person had been standing near the intersection of Essex Street and the train tracks — the crossing is near the Andover MBTA Commuter Rail stop — waiting for a…

An Amtrak train with nearly 200 people on board partially derailed Wednesday when it slammed into a work truck at a crossing in the Ventura County community of Moorpark.

A pedestrian was struck by a train on the Meriden/Berlin town line on Monday morning. Amtrak officials said a person was on the track when Amtrak train 490 struck them north of Meriden around 9:45 a.m. Just before 1 p.m. The train was traveling from New Haven, CT to Springfield, MA and remains stopped. Amtrak Tweeted that people who are…

Five Amtrak employees were hurt when two of the train company’s vehicles collided near an MBTA Commuter Rail Station in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood Friday, according to the MBTA. The employees are expected to recover, an MBTA representative said in a statement. The Amtrak truck and track truck were substantially damaged after their collision near Readville Station. NBC10 Boston...

Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak train derailment in Montana say the track had been bent along a curve near the accident site and the problem had been getting worse as freight trains traveled over it before the derailment. Details on the bent track were included in hundreds of pages of investigative documents released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety...

Passengers spent over 36 hours on a train when a freight car derailment stopped Amtrak Auto Train 53 in North Carolina overnight.

Amtrak has canceled all long-distance trains nationwide starting Thursday, as it prepares for a possible freight-rail strike that would impact its service.

Hundreds of Amtrak passengers were facing major delays in the Northeast on Wednesday, with trains stopped for hours. Nearly 10 trains weren’t moving because of the issue, according to updates from Amtrak.

For the second time in as many days, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be riding the rails. After riding a commuter rail train Monday as the MBTA embarked upon a monthlong end-to-end shutdown of its Orange Line, Baker on Tuesday afternoon plans to hitch a ride with Amtrak between Boston and Springfield. Riding with Baker will be U.S. Rep....

A new era in transportation for Vermont launched Friday, which Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, labeled “an important and historic day.” After nearly 70 years, Vermont’s most populous community once again has passenger rail service to and from New York City. The newly-expanded Ethan Allen Express connects downtown Burlington and Penn Station. “Anything beats air travel right now,” said Susan…

After nearly 70 years, Burlington, Vermont, the state’s most populous community, once again has passenger rail service to New York City.

Seven train cars derailed in Mendon, Missouri, after an Amtrak train struck a dump truck at a public crossing.

An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said. Two of those killed were on the train and one was in the truck, Missouri State Highway Patrol…

Two people were killed by an Amtrak train Sunday in southern Maine, according to police. A police dispatcher told News Center Maine that the train hit the two people around 11 a.m. about 1,000 feet from Maine Street in Biddeford. Eighty-one people were on board the train, which was traveling from Boston to Brunswick, Maine. Passengers were transferred onto a…

Vermont Transportation Agency officials are warning about people walking along the newly refurbished railroad line between Burlington and Rutland where Amtrak trains are conducting full-speed test runs. The Transportation Agency’s Toni Clithero made the comments Tuesday, a day after there were two close calls between Amtrak trains and people walking along the active tracks, in West Rutland and Brandon....