Due to Amtrak’s intransigence (which is standard) and its lack of foresight and imagination (which is typical), today begins the third week of unnecessary reduced passenger rail options between Penn ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The death toll from the Amtrak wreck rose to eight with the discovery of another body in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train’s engineer said his client has no ...

WASHINGTON -- The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year apparently was distracted by word a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators ...

Amtrak’s top official says the railroad takes full responsibility for the deadly derailment in Philadelphia and apologizes for its role in the tragedy. President and CEO Joseph Boardman made the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The speeding Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, most likely ran off the rails because the engineer was distracted by word of a nearby commuter ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Federal investigators arrived Wednesday to determine why an Amtrak train jumped the tracks in a wreck that killed at least six people, injured dozens and plunged screaming ...

The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded ...

"Are you really going to ask that? That’s a stupid question," Boehner told a reporter who prefaced an Amtrak funding question with complaints by Democrats. "Yeah, they started this yesterday. It’s all ...

The death toll from the Amtrak wreck rose to eight with the discovery of another body in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train's engineer said his client has no recollection of the ...

Feb. 04--An Amtrak passenger train traveling at more than 50 mph ran off a main track Sunday in Lexington County, smashed into a parked train and killed two people in what's considered one of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The death toll from the Amtrak wreck rose to eight with the discovery of another body in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train's engineer said his client has no ...