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People will always step up when it counts. Commuters and emergency workers alike rushed to help survivors when an Amtrak passenger train derailed by Tacoma.

The positive train control was installed but, not fully operational, contributed to the derailment

SEATTLE (AP) — The Amtrak train that derailed Sunday was traveling through a section of track that contains a switch that will nudge a train off-course if the draw-span on the approaching bridge is open. The Seattle Times reports it's not known if that switch caused the derailment...

VANCOUVER (AP) — A single car on a train carrying coal from Montana to British Columbia partially derailed in southwestern Washington state, but it remained upright and none of the coal spilled. BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas told The Columbian newspaper the derailment occurred at about 1 a...

VANCOUVER (AP) — Six months after a train hauling Bakken crude oil derailed along the Columbia River Gorge, state and other officials are still tabulating a bill to send to Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific said in a statement that it is committed to absorbing all the costs incurred as a result of the fiery crash on June 3 in Mosier, Oregon...

SEATTLE (AP) — Two companies proposing to build what would be the nation's largest oil-by-rail marine terminal along the Columbia River in Washington see it as an opportunity to link domestic crude oil from the interior to a West Coast port...