derailment

The death toll from the train derailment in north Philadelphia is now up to six.

The governor of West Virginia is declaring a state of emergency in two counties after a fiery train derailment. It happened near Adena Village, which is about 20 miles north of Wheeling. About 100 people have been evacuated. The CSX train that derailed was carrying crude oil...

Eyewitness accounts suggest that the train that derailed in Spain last night was going too fast as it went around a turn underneath a road bridge. And those accounts are backed by security-camera footage of the derailment. The video shows the train carriages starting to buckle soon into the turn, with the first and second passenger cars leaving the tracks first...

Spanish investigators are trying to determine what caused a passenger train to jump the tracks just before arriving in the northwestern shrine city of Santiago de Compostela yesterday.