In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn't sleep despite the steady rocking of ...

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia's war crimes prosecutors have charged five people with abducting 20 people from a train in eastern Bosnia in 1993 and brutally killing them — a wartime massacre that ...

All aboard. The fever is ready to roll, taking us on *** historic ride through rural Nebraska for any of you that have no idea where we're going. We're on our way to the little town of Nickerson, also ...

The train speeds to 100 mph a few minutes after it leaves Union Station. It hits 125 as it nears the first major curve. Engineer Carmine Palumbo blows the horn and checks the speedometer. If this were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Twenty years ago, as a 16-year-old boy, ...

In February I took a trip to Rocky Mount, N.C., for the funeral of my only brother. I traveled on Amtrak. After breakfast in the dining car, I found that my sleeper had not been made up so I asked the ...

Amtrak’s worst wreck in terms of deaths was the Sept. 22, 1993, derailment outside Mobile, when the Sunset Limited plunged off a bridge and caught fire in the pre-dawn hours. Forty-seven passengers ...

Keron Thomas — who made headlines as a 16-year-old by swiping an A train and taking it on a three-hour joyride — died Monday from a heart attack. He was 37. Thomas, who owned his own trucking company, ...

The two successful tilting trains today — the Italian ETR 450 and the Swedish X-2000 came into service within a very short time of one another, in 1989 and 1990 respectively. However, while Italy's ...