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Between 15 and 20 people died Saturday when two trains collided outside of Cairo, Egypt, and officials expect the death toll to rise, the country's Interior Ministry said.

A six-month-old baby had a miraculous escape after his pram rolled off a railway station platform and into the path of an incoming train.

Typhoon Melor was gathering strength as it traveled along Japan's southern coast with sustained winds of about 100 miles per hour, causing power outages and disrupting air and train travel.

Several dozen people were injured when two San Francisco light-rail trains collided Saturday afternoon at the West Portal Station, ...

It's the annual "Moon Over Amtrak" event in the Orange County community of Laguna Niguel in which people line up to moon passing commuter trains.

A freight train derailed and plowed into houses in a small Italian town, setting off an explosion and fire that killed at least 12 people — many as they slept in their homes — and injured at least 50, officials said Tuesday.

Investigators also find evidence that the train was in automatic mode, meaning the onboard computer should have slowed it down.

The rush-hour collision on the busy Red Line injured dozens of people. Those killed include the operator of one train. It's the first fatal crash for the Metro train system since 1982.

It's that rare vacation moment when everyone is happy at the same time. "Our kids have never been on a train before," said Mary Macho, visiting from Eden Prairie, Minn., with her husband, 10-year-old twins and 8-year-old.

Massive model railway becoming one of Germany's most popular tourist attractions