Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WELSH, La. (AP) — State police say a Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury employee received minor injuries when an Amtrak train ...

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, killing two Amtrak workers and sending more than 30 passengers to ...

A backhoe that caused a fatal Amtrak train crash over the weekend reportedly did not have authorization to be on an active train track. Two maintenance workers who were on the backhoe died after the ...

CHESTER, Pa. (via USA TODAY) — Two Amtrak workers were killed and dozens of passengers were injured when a train bound for Washington, D.C., slammed into a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday ...

A passenger train on Sunday morning struck a piece of construction equipment (backhoe) on the rail tracks near Philadelphia, in the eastern US, killing two people and causing the lead engine to derail ...

A backhoe operator had a right to be on train tracks periodically on the weekend an Amtrak train slammed into it, killing the operator and a supervisor, federal crash investigators said Monday. The ...

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia on Sunday causing a derailment, killing two Amtrak workers and sending more than 30 passengers ...

Train 89 was heading from New York to Savannah, Georgia, at about 8 a.m. when it hit a backhoe that was on the track in Chester, about 15 miles outside of Philadelphia, officials said. The impact ...