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No other city in North America reminds visitors of Paris and European culture than Montreal, less than an hour drive from the U.S.-Canadian border.
An emotional Amtrak CEO pledged to lawmakers Tuesday that safety technology that could have prevented a deadly derailment last month in Philadelphia will be put into operation.
NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak trains were delayed for up to an hour at Penn Station late Wednesday afternoon, after an overhead wire came down.
The move follows a deadly derailment earlier this month in which investigators are searching for clues to the train engineer's actions just before the crash.
Griffith was one of eight people who died in the derailment.
That cap for a single passenger rail incident was part of a late effort in 1997 to pass a law that would rescue Amtrak from financial ruin and help it one day become independent.
National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that he wanted to "downplay" the idea that damage to the windshield might have come from someone firing a shot at the train.
Amtrak said Saturday that it will cooperate, after the Federal Railroad Administration announced a crackdown following the fatal derailment in Philadelphia this week.
An assistant conductor said she thought she heard an Amtrak train engineer say his train had been hit by projectiles before the derailment this week, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
An injured Amtrak employee filed a Thursday in connection with the derailment that left eight people dead in Philadelphia this week.
Friends say Brandon Bostian, the engineer at the center of the Amtrak train derailment investigation, has been a "train geek" most of his life.
A mother and daughter from Long Island survived Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment and described a terrifying chain of events to CBS2's Valerie Castro.
Five of the seven people killed in the Amtrak derailment in northeast Philadelphia have been identified, and their families have been left in shock and mourning.
The chairman of the New Jersey state Assembly Transportation Committee wants to know where the money will come from for a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York.
The state highway patrol, which had at least one trooper accompanying the oversized load, had said it spent about five minutes trying to negotiate the railroad crossing.
An Amtrak train headed for New York City slammed into a tractor-trailer that stalled on railroad tracks in North Carolina on Monday, toppling the engine onto its side and injuring dozens of people, officials said.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for New York City, Long Island and parts of New Jersey until 7 p.m. Thursday.
A case of the measles has been confirmed in in Dutchess County, and the sick person was on an Amtrak train, the New York State Department of Health announced Friday.
The Tri-State area is bracing for a "crippling and potentially historic'' storm that could bury communities in up to 2 or more feet of snow.
A church could be standing in the way of New Jersey commuters' hopes for a faster trip to the city.
The Federal Railroad Administration outlined four levels of proposals in a report last month at NECFuture.com.
The Tri-State area is facing a bitter cold day as a ferocious storm dumped massive piles of snow on parts of upstate New York.
Amtrak trains that run through upstate New York will be halted at Albany through Wednesday afternoon, after a snowstorm described as being among the worst in recent memory pounded the Buffalo area.
The two-acre platform located between 9th and 10th avenues between 31st and 33rd streets is bigger than Bryant Park and was built over active Amtrak, LIRR and NJ Transit tracks.
At its monthly board meeting Wednesday, the agency voted to approve up to $150,000 to pay for ongoing legal bills to continue the Carmine Franco case.
