Opponents said the route, which shortened the trip between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle would expose car and pedestrian traffic to faster trains at more than a half-dozen street-level crossings in Lakewood. City officials asserted the state transportation department's environmental review…
A US passenger train that derailed, killing three people, was travelling at 80mph (130km/h) on a curve with a speed limit of 30mph, data from the train's ... Authorities are now working through wind and cold rain to clear and…
It was Cascades passenger train number 501, which left Seattle at 6am local time and was due in Portland, Oregon at 9.20am. The incident .... Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing…
In a radio transmission immediately after the accident, the conductor can be heard saying the train was coming around a corner and was crossing a bridge that passed over Interstate 5 when it derailed. Dispatch audio also indicated that the…
Don Anderson, mayor of Lakewood, Wash., a city along the new route, predicted a deadly crash, albeit one involving a fast-moving train hitting a car or pedestrian at a grade-crossing. At a recent public meeting, he called on state planners…
