More than 600 returning holiday passengers were aboard Amtrak’s Colonial on Jan. 4, 1987, en route from Newport News to Boston, on what would later prove to be a fateful Sunday afternoon that those ...

An Amtrak passenger train collided with three Conrail engines Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 175. It was the worst accident in Amtrak`s history in terms of fatalities. Rescue teams ...

It was a new year in the dead of winter when a northbound Amtrak train derailed not long before it would make its next stop in Delaware. Around 1:30 p.m., Amtrak Train 94 collided with a Conrail train ...

Jayne Miller reports on Jan. 9, 1987, Amtrak train service resumes after a crash in Chase.