Excessive heat on the train tracks caused a BART train to derail near Concord earlier this week, officials said. About 50 passengers had to be evacuated around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday after a Bay Area ...

The speed limit at the curve where the train crosses Interstate 5 is 30 miles per hour, said state transportation department spokeswoman Barbara LaBoe, while the speed limit on most of the track ...

An Amtrak engineer said that he was worried about the curve along the Point Defiance bypass line in DuPont prior to the deadly train crash in December.

Another Norfolk Southern freight train derailed as it traveled around the Horseshoe Curve about 4:10 p.m. Friday. The derailment, six cars by the estimate of onlookers, a number later confirmed by ...

The Amtrak train that crashed in north Philadelphia this week was accelerating until it was shooting along the track at more than double the speed limit as it approached the curve where it ...

The Curve Where an Amtrak Train Derailed Wasn’t Supposed to Exist – But It Cost Too Much to Fix. 2 minute read. By Jamie Ducharme. December 22, 2017 6:36 PM EST.

The sharp 30 mph curve where an Amtrak train derailed in Washington this week was not supposed to be there at all, according to a new report. An $11 billion Washington State government plan to spee… ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Officials say a new train speed technology, already being tested along FasTracks to Denver International Airport, will prevent a disaster such as the fatal derailment in ...

Officials say that stretching out the curve will allow trains to travel 30 mph, up from 10 mph now, and prevent derailments such as those that occurred in May, September and December.