Of the near hits, the worst are when the person who has just bounded across the track in front of the hurtling train turns and looks back. In that instant, engineer Tom Fathbruckner is forced to guess ...

A warning chime sounds, the doors whoosh shut, and the train begins to glide into the landscape. It’s a moment of gentle exhilaration that rail riders around the globe have been missing for more than ...

A Long Island Rail Road train smashed into a taxi, killing the driver and seriously injuring his passenger in Suffolk County on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Daniel Seagren, 49, stopped his cab ...