In May 2001, a CSX engineer in Ohio jumped off a slow-moving locomotive to fix a misaligned switch, thinking he could climb back aboard. Instead, the train picked up speed and became an unmanned ...

CHICAGO — Pursued by dozens of emergency vehicles, a driverless, runaway freight train loaded with thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals steamed through 66 miles of northwestern Ohio on Tuesday ...

NEW YORK — A runaway locomotive rolled a mile and a half down the tracks in Queens on Wednesday, plowing into vehicles and injuring four people, two of whom were in critical condition Wednesday night.

A Phoenix man was close to turning a locomotive into his own runaway train. Police say 20-year-old Julio Rodriguez was arrested earlier this month after trying to steal a train from a rail yard just ...