A passenger train was placed under quarantine Friday in northern Ontario after an undetermined illness left one woman dead and at least 10 other people sick.

Authorities said the train was carrying 230 passengers and 30 crew members. Police ordered the train station evacuated in the tiny hamlet of Foleyet. picked by dollyllama 2 months ago

An American tourist from California was killed by a train as he walked on the tracks in a daze after he drank a cappuccino laced with drugs and then was robbed, railway police said Monday. picked by dollyllama 2 months ago

When Robert Gillespie looked up from his text message, he saw a freight train. EOM. ("End of message," that is, for non-texters.) Eugene police say Gillespie's car crashed into the side of the Union Pacific freight train about 2 a.m. Tuesday. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

"And then, the train just started going up in the air. The wheels separated from the train. Then the track went over, the rails went up in the air. I never saw anything like it before," she said. picked by dollyllama 8 months ago

Services on five Tokyo railway lines were thrown into confusion Wednesday morning after a man accused of groping a high school girl on a train escaped and fled onto the train tracks. The commotion forced delays of up to 18 minutes for 37 trains, affecting about 80,000 passengers. picked by mitzuzake 11 months ago

Many pics of a HUGE set-up for a model train and the miniature town it runs through. The detail is incredible. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago

It's probably the ultimate survival story. A child is born prematurely, slips through the toilet bowl of a running train, crash lands onto the tracks. The entire train passes over her, but she is alive and is now sleeping peacefully at the Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmedabad. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Bangladesh- At least 17 people were killed and 25 injured after a packed train rammed into a bus in a northern Bangladesh town early Wednesday morning, police said. picked by lostsoul135 3 months ago

A Massive Myspace Movement is hopping aboard the Peace Train! Over 500+ are already joining and their goal is 100,000! Joining is easy and reposting the train is not neccesary, but would be nice! picked by RobertS22 1 year ago

A German took advantage of a passenger's death on the underground by stealing from the dead man before pretending to help save him. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A man talking on his cell phone while walking down the middle of train tracks was killed by an Amtrak train Wednesday. picked by muppet 2 months ago

Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing -- a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame. picked by dougisdumb 2 weeks ago

A chief constable who plunged to his death in Snowdonia had been drinking before he was found dead at the bottom of a cliff. picked by topofall 4 months ago

Frickin stunt show involving two cars, two motorbikes, and, well, the Well of Death. picked by suckersklub 7 months ago

Two teenage girls who attempted to rob a cab driver, slashing his face with a box cutter, were thrown from the taxi and killed in a wreck on Tuesday, police said. picked by mutil8or 3 months ago

Polish police found a 38-year-old Armenian man trying to illegally enter the country by hiding in a woman's luggage. Police said the man was inside a suitcase on a Kiev-to-Berlin passenger train. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A man in custody shot a small-town police chief to death Wednesday from the back seat of the chief's cruiser in Eastern Kentucky, a county official said.

Powell County Judge-Executive Darren Farmer said Police Chief Randy Lacy was shot by a man he had arrested shortly after 11 a.m.


-If he were following procedure, wouldn't he have checked the guy for weapons before he put him in cruiser? picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

Rail Union ASLEF is planning to protest the premiere of new film Three and Out, a comedy starring MacKenzie Crook as a train driver on the London Underground with an avaricious interest in suicidal commuters.

Actual Underground drivers are upset that the film may trivialise an all too common occurrence which, in the real world, is very traumatic. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

A swarm of graffiti artist hit a train stop and completely cover a stopped train in under 2 minutes and do a pretty good job considering how fast they did it. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

A French train with a 25,000-horsepower engine and special wheels broke the world speed record Tuesday for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph (574.8 kph) as it zipped through the countryside to the applause of spectators. picked by DoggySpew 1 year ago