The effort is a response to a number of recent derailments and explosions that have increased partly because of booming oil production in the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana. The ...

Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in northeastern Ohio urgently warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so Sunday night, saying ...

A reported explosion closed a vital railway supply route in Russian-occupied Crimea on Wednesday, as Moscow and its regional collaborator authorities struggle with a wave of sabotage attacks. Sergey ...

Anyone plugged into environmental issues saw all kinds of stories about "bomb trains" last week, marking the first anniversary of a train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. That train was ...

Wreckage from the latest oil train explosion hadn't been cleared from the crash site in West Virginia last week when President Obama vetoed legislation that would have approved construction of the ...

(CNN) — Five train cars that contained a potentially explosive chemical, vinyl chloride, are no longer burning after a train derailment in Ohio, a Norfolk Southern official said Tuesday. The burning ...

BOSTON -- New video from the MBTA captures a battery explosion on an Orange Line train that caused Orange and Red Line trains to be shut down on June 20. The battery exploded on an Orange Line car at ...