New York Train Crash

Three New York National Guard members were killed on Wednesday evening when a military helicopter they were in crashed in the town of Mendon, New York, while on a routine training mission, authorities said.

A Long Island Rail Road passenger train derailed on Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring dozens of people and forcing suspension of service on the key transit line in both directions, railroad and police officials said.

New Jersey Transit train No. 1614 headed south from Spring Valley, New York, shortly before 7:30 am, and for 16 stops it was a typical weekday morning commute for hundreds of passengers.

Rail service will resume between Philadelphia and New York on Monday, following a deadly crash that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured along the popular train route.

A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.

The engineer of a New York commuter train that plowed into a vehicle this week at a suburban rail crossing picked up an injured passenger and carried him off the train as it became engulfed in flames, federal investigators said on Friday.

The routine was the same, Monday through Friday. A man who, like generations of suburban commuters before him, had built his working life around the Metro-North timetables left the JPMorgan Chase tower on Park Avenue in New York City.

A packed commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a crossing on Tuesday night, killing seven people, injuring several others and sending hundreds of passengers scrambling to get to safety as the front of the train and the SUV burst into flames. The impact was so forceful the electrified third rail buckled and pierced the...

The driver of a New York commuter rail train that derailed on Sunday, killing four people, told investigators that he "lost focus" shortly before the crash, according to a law enforcement source.

Four people died and 67 were injured, 11 critically, when a commuter train headed for central New York derailed on Sunday close to the Hudson river.

The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor in the United States.

"After all the wind and storm, what's going on with the high-speed train?" read the prophetic message posted last Saturday evening on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo. "It's crawling slower than a snail. I hope nothing happens to it."

Roughly 30 people were injured on Sunday as their PATH train in Hoboken, N.J., hit a rubberized barrier at the end of the line, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the line.A passenger aboard the train said that the first car crumpled part of the platform and hit three turnstiles before stopping. The t...

Three New York National Guard members were killed on Wednesday evening when a military helicopter they were in crashed in the town of Mendon, New York, while on a routine training mission, authorities said.

A Long Island Rail Road passenger train derailed on Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring dozens of people and forcing suspension of service on the key transit line in both directions, railroad and police officials said.

New Jersey Transit train No. 1614 headed south from Spring Valley, New York, shortly before 7:30 am, and for 16 stops it was a typical weekday morning commute for hundreds of passengers.

Rail service will resume between Philadelphia and New York on Monday, following a deadly crash that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured along the popular train route.

A portrait of the engineer at the helm of a speeding Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia began to emerge on Thursday as the man's lawyer said his client could not remember the crash and rescuers pulled an eighth body from the wreckage.

The engineer of a New York commuter train that plowed into a vehicle this week at a suburban rail crossing picked up an injured passenger and carried him off the train as it became engulfed in flames, federal investigators said on Friday.

The routine was the same, Monday through Friday. A man who, like generations of suburban commuters before him, had built his working life around the Metro-North timetables left the JPMorgan Chase tower on Park Avenue in New York City.

A packed commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a crossing on Tuesday night, killing seven people, injuring several others and sending hundreds of passengers scrambling to get to safety as the front of the train and the SUV burst into flames. The impact was so forceful the electrified third rail buckled and pierced the...

The driver of a New York commuter rail train that derailed on Sunday, killing four people, told investigators that he "lost focus" shortly before the crash, according to a law enforcement source.

Four people died and 67 were injured, 11 critically, when a commuter train headed for central New York derailed on Sunday close to the Hudson river.

The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor in the United States.

"After all the wind and storm, what's going on with the high-speed train?" read the prophetic message posted last Saturday evening on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo. "It's crawling slower than a snail. I hope nothing happens to it."

Roughly 30 people were injured on Sunday as their PATH train in Hoboken, N.J., hit a rubberized barrier at the end of the line, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the line.A passenger aboard the train said that the first car crumpled part of the platform and hit three turnstiles before stopping. The t...