Topic: Amtrak
Authorities say a Chicago-bound Amtrak train with at least 76 people aboard has slammed into a fire truck that was stopped on the tracks in southwest Detroit, causing minor injuries to several people. Executive Fire Commissioner James Mack says the ladder truck was hit as ...
Amtrak has rolled out wireless Internet access on all 20 of its Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston and in six major stations along the northeast corridor. The service is free for now, though the railroad says that policy will be reviewed after an introductory period ...
Officials in Pennsylvania say two teenage girls who were struck and killed by a high-speed Amtrak train committed suicide. An Acela train traveling from Boston to Washington, D.C., hit the 10th-graders about 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Norwood, about 10 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The Delaware ...
