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In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation ...

A Union Pacific Z-train was moving at 64 mph when it collided with a 45.5-ton piece of heavy equipment on a grade crossing in ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) urged the public not to “speculate” about the cause of the deadly midair ...

The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation is ongoing. Future investigative activity will focus on site modeling, accident data analysis, highway railroad grade crossing safety ...