Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

Dramatic video showed the moment a freight train smashed into a sewage truck on a rail crossing in Virginia, causing a huge ...

Anyone plugged into environmental issues saw all kinds of stories about "bomb trains" last week, marking the first anniversary of a train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. That train was ...

Oil train protesters momentarily block a railroad in South Seattle in January. Credit: AH AH Oil train protesters momentarily block a railroad in South Seattle in January. Last July, the town center ...

The effort is a response to a number of recent derailments and explosions that have increased partly because of booming oil production in the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana. The ...

BOSTON -- New video from the MBTA captures a battery explosion on an Orange Line train that caused Orange and Red Line trains to be shut down on June 20. The battery exploded on an Orange Line car at ...