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.

Federal officials have launched an investigation into a runaway train car that rolled out of control for 15 miles near Walla Walla, Washington, on Tuesday. Police raced westward on U.S. Highway 12 ...

Investigative Reporter Darrel Richter has uncovered new information about efforts to stop the train that ran away from a Walbridge rail yard last spring. We've obtained a detailed internal memo from ...

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 ...

For a whopping 57 miles, a runaway train loaded with iron ore hurtled down tracks in Western Australia with nobody on board. The train was eventually deliberately derailed, creating a dramatic crash ...

When thousands of tons of freight cars rolled free from a Montclair switching station, crew members knew they had just minutes to try to stop them before the runaway cars gained too much speed. Their ...

In the 1990s, the band Soul Asylum in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released the iconic music video “Runaway Train,” featuring missing children from around ...

A runaway freight train in northern India traveled nearly 45 miles without a driver on Sunday, reaching speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, before it was brought to a stop, according to railway ...