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

Lawmakers for Massachusetts’ South Coast all had a single word in mind when they gathered Monday to cut the ribbon on a brand-new Freetown commuter rail station: “surreal.” Passenger rail service to Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River is not here yet but is visible on the horizon, set to begin by the end of 2023 after decades of discussion…

Police said a train struck a person Wednesday morning near the Belknap Street Crossing in Concord, Massachusetts. A woman “intentionally entered” the tracks as the train was traveling through, the MBTA said in a statement. The woman was pronounced dead on scene. Transit Police Detectives are investigating. The MBTA wrote on Twitter that the incident would cause “significant delays” on…

It’s Vacation Week and the Amtrak Downeaster will whisk you away to the northern New England paradise, no car needed!

Rail service returns to Cape Cod this weekend, along with backups at the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.” “It’s a nightmare in the summer,” one woman said of the usual Cape traffic. The CapeFLYER is marking a decade of service, providing an alternative way of getting to Cape Cod and the islands. The train makes round trips between South Station...

Commuters should expect delays after a crash involving a car and a train Monday morning in Stoughton. Stoughton police said the crash blocked off Wyman Street and Canton Street. The Stoughton police worked with MBTA officials to clear the train from the roadway. Stoughton Line Train 865 (7 a.m. from South Station) was operating into Stoughton and was 40-50 minutes…

An Amtrak train hit a vehicle on the tracks near the station Monday in Haverhill, Massachusetts, leaving a man dead. An 83-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene after the pickup truck he was driving went through a gate on Rosemont Street and collided with the train around 12:45 p.m., the Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Monday...

The MBTA will cut services this winter as a result of a worker shortage, it announced Tuesday. Officials say the MBTA can’t find enough bus and train operators to keep everything moving, and that more people are leaving than it can hire.

An Amtrak train collided with an Amazon Delivery Truck in Wisconsin, cutting it in half

A child played “chicken” with a train Thursday in New Hampshire, Amtrak told police. A group of seven children was seen playing on the tracks in Exeter. Amtrak reported that one of the children “was playing ‘chicken’ with a southbound train and was nearly struck,” police said in a Facebook post Tuesday. In response, police are increasing patrols near the…

The train was heading from Chicago to Seattle when eight of the ten cars derailed.

A train hit a teenager on Wednesday, leaving him seriously injured, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, authorities said. The boy, who is 17, was flown to a Boston hospital after he was hit by the train near the border of Westford about 12:10 p.m., according to the Chelmsford Police Department. Investigators believe the teenager was walking on the tracks and unaware the…

Officials are planning a celebration to mark the return of Amtrak passenger trains to Vermont later this month. The July 19 event at the Montpelier Amtrak station will also include officials from the town of Berlin and the Vermont Agency of Transportation. The party is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and last until the train departs the station, scheduled…

A train split a semitrailer in two after it got stuck on a set of tracks in Richmond, Texas.

Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the train fell onto a busy boulevard late Monday night. It was one of the deadliest incidents in the history of the subway system, which is among the busiest in the world. Of the 24 killed, the mayor said 21 died at the scene, while the others died at hospitals, and children were among the fatalities.

President Joe Biden didn’t want to be anywhere else Friday than helping his Amtrak family celebrate 50 years on the rails

Jonathan Yellowday found a bag of diamond rings Thursday and returned them to the jeweler before he even noticed they were gone.

A person on a freight train was shot by a pellet gun in Wareham, Massachusetts. Police say the incident appears to be accidental.

A Taiwan train carrying around 350 people derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring dozens more in the in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters.