The engineer killed when the Amtrak train he was driving slammed into a parked freight train in South Carolina had seen a counsellor to help him cope after being rattled by a previous train wreck, his mother said. Within the…
Emergency responders work at the scene of a crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 in Cayce, S.C. The crash left multiple people dead and dozens of people injured. (Lexington County Sheriff's…
Sumwalt, a Columbia native in town when the accident occurred, said a safety system known as “positive train control'' could have saved lives in the accident in South Carolina, as it could with other train wrecks across the country. The…
More than 31 million riders last year reached more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, the company said. Amtrak's trains along the Northeast corridor are its busiest, but the company also serves dozens of small towns…
Sumwalt said that the switch was padlocked to send trains on the main line to the side track, which conductors are supposed to do when they change lines. He said the freight train crew took the CSX train from one…
