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A 29-year-old woman in Hidalgo, Mexico is dead after attempting to take a selfie with a train bound for Mexico City, but got too close to the tracks. The woman, who has not been identified, was part of a crowd to witness the final leg of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) 1930 Empress 2816 steam locomotive's journey, which departed from Calgary in Alberta, Canada on April 24. Last year, the cross-continental Final Spike Steam Tour became the first ever steam-powered passenger train in North America to traverse across Canada, the United States, and Mexico in a single trip. In...

TEXAS A&M, Texas (KBTX) - The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum unveiled the former President’s 4141 locomotive in its new home Thursday. The locomotive joined the former president’s retired Marine One helicopter in the museum’s new addition, the Marine One/4141 Locomotive Pavilion. After years of collaboration between the Texas A&M University System, Union Pacific, George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the George and Barbara Bush Foundation and other organizations, the locomotive is now a permanent part of the museum’s collection. The train was renamed in honor of President Bush in 2005, painted to match Air Force One....

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SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say. The Pacific Harbor Line train derailed Tuesday, running through the end of the track and crashing through barriers, finally coming to rest about 250 yards from the docked naval ship. Federal prosecutors allege train engineer Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro intended to hit the ship, saying he thought it was "suspicious" and did not believe "the ship is what they...

FULL TITLE: Train-loving toddler, 3, killed by freight train after he and his two-year-old sister sneaked away from home and went to the railroad tracks An Indiana family has been left devastated after their three-year-old son and his two-year-old sister were hit by a freight train after sneaking out of their home. Caleb Wilson was killed on impact when he was struck by the train around 9.30am on Tuesday. His sister Ellie was hospitalized in critical condition. The children's parents have been identified as Kelsey Benson and Jacob Wilson. Family members said Caleb adored trains and that Ellie adored her...

Hold onto your engineer caps, railroad history lovers. Seventy years after the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, the steep Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Utah were still giving the Union Pacific Railroad trouble. Despite having massive steam engines, the Union Pacific, one of the biggest railroads in America, still struggled to move heavy freight trains over the mountains and would often have to use multiple locomotives to get trains to their destination. This practice required more workers and more fuel. In 1940, the Union Pacific’s mechanical engineers teamed up with the American Locomotive Company to build one...

Locomotive Runs Over Ukrainian Couple Having Sex on Railroad Tracks MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) – An attempt to spice up their sexual life went badly wrong for a middle-aged couple in central Ukraine, which was run over by a train when having sex on the railroad tracks, local police said. The woman died on the spot, while the man lost both legs and was hospitalized, the country’s Interior Ministry said on its website. The man and his girlfriend “failed to overcome their natural passion when walking home … and wanted to experience an extreme sensation near the railroad tracks,”...

April 12, 2010, is the 148th anniversary of the "Great Locomotive Chase" that made "The General" famous.

People and funding are needed to keep the great northern steam locomotive CN6218 on track. The train, built in 1942 and moved to Fort Erie in 1973, needs $429,000 worth of repairs. It's located at the Fort Erie Railroad Museum on Central Avenue. At a recent town budget meeting, the Fort Erie Historical Museum asked council for $100,000 to go towards restoring the deteriorating engine. Council agreed to allocate $50,000 this year and expects the next council to provide the other $50,000. "I think having a $50,000 commitment from council is a really positive sign of support," said museum administrator...

Passengers stranded when modern-day trains fell victim to the freezing weather have been rescued by the crew of a steam engine. About 100 passengers climbed aboard the first mainline steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost half a century at London Victoria when electric trains were delayed.  The 1940s technology used to power Tornado, a £3million Peppercorn class A1 Pacific, was able to withstand the snow and ice that brought much of the South East to a standstill on Monday night. Historic solution: The Tornado A1 locomotive came to the aid of stranded passengers let down by...

The long-running fight over a historic Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad locomotive that a railroad group wants to return to Scranton is headed back to a federal appeals court in St. Louis. The Lackawanna Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Inc. has appealed a federal judge's decision that DL&W 952 may remain at St. Louis County's Museum of Transportation even though the museum does not own the 104-year-old steam engine. In his June 5 ruling in favor of the museum, U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. rejected the Lackawanna Chapter's attempt to retake possession of the 952,...

Really chuffed: First full-size British steam locomotive for 50 years fires up Last updated at 22:25pm on 01.08.08  First came the sweet toot of the whistle, then a steady hiss. Finally, sporting her battleship-grey undercoat, Britain's first new steam locomotive in almost half a century emerged in all her majesty. It was a sight that took those old enough to remember back to a golden age of rail travel. Even though Tornado only had 120 yards of track to cover as she chugged into action in a Darlington rail yard, the moment was, with good reason, marked with a...

Train Blocks Chili Avenue by Rich Turner Published Mar 24, 2008 A disabled train has Chili Avenue blocked at the 3300 block, near Old Chili-Scottsville Road. The train hit a boulder on the tracks, causing

This year, 2006, is the 50th Anniversary of Walt Disney Picture's classic "The Great Locomotive Chase" starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter. This movie was made during the golden age of Hollywood when films were still made for the entire family. When it comes to locomotives many of us are children at heart. Don't you love a good story about the bygone era of passenger trains that once were America's fastest way to travel? America's most famous locomotive "The General" is now home at the Kennesaw, Georgia Civil War Museum. Kennesaw, Georgia is is just 45 miles from Atlanta. Located...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - You could call it Railroad One. Union Pacific Railroad unveiled a new locomotive on Tuesday named in honor of former President Bush. The locomotive, shown in public for the first time at a ceremony on the Texas A&M University campus, bears the number 4141, in honor of Bush, who was the 41st president. It is painted to resemble Air Force One, the presidential plane. "If I had one of these when I was president, I might have left Air Force One behind," Bush said. The 74-foot long and 16-foot tall diesel locomotive weighs about 420,000 pounds...

Investigation Finds Human, Mechanical Error in New York City Train Wreck Mar 16, 2004 By Michael Weissenstein/ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Human and mechanical errors led to an accident in which a runaway train locomotive smashed into five vehicles, injuring three men and a nun, federal investigators said Tuesday. A rail crew violated Long Island Railroad procedures by not setting a hand brake or blocking the 150-ton locomotive's wheels while they went to work on another train, the National Transportation Safety Board said. A mechanical brake that the crew set was leaking air and eventually failed, and...