Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In case you didn’t know, this is Rail Safety Week — Sept. 14-20. Federal Railroad Administration statistics say 2,260 collisions ...

More than nine times a week, a tractor-trailer and a train collide, and there are many more near-hits than collisions. Every three hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. Trains can ...

Every three hours, a person is hit by a train in the U.S., officials said Monday in announcing Illinois Rail Safety Week. That number strikes a chord in the Chicago region, the nation’s busiest train ...

Railroad Permissive Crossings—Has the ‘Well-Worn Path’ Worn Out Its Welcome? When a railroad company has for years, without objection, permitted the public to cross its tracks at a given point, there ...

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) — Drivers in Pass Christian are about to see major changes at railroad crossings across the city as crews install new safety equipment aimed at preventing deadly crashes ...