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A freight train that derailed could tie up several intersections in the city of Industry for two days, authorities said Tuesday. A Union Pacific train started sparking and smoking before coming partially off the tracks at 10:42 p.m. Monday along......

A raging fire that decimated a Pierce County marina is under control Friday night, but not before the flames scorched boats and docks. The fire happened about 5 AM at the Steilacoom Marina. Now, investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the...

Burlington Northern Santa Fe is looking into what a man was doing on train tracks just before he was struck and killed. The freight train hit the man just before 5am on Wednesday in Centralia. KITI reports the train stopped and the body was found...

A woman has died after being hit by an Amtrak train in Tacoma. Police say she and a man were walking on the tracks near Titlow Beach and possibly putting pennies on the track and didn't get out of the way in time. Both were hit and taken to Tacoma...

For the first time in over a decade Seattle's King Street Station clock tower has the correct time on all four faces. Today mayor greg nickels threw the switch to set it in motion. With a flip of the switch and the Jimi Hendrix song, "All Along The...

Officials are saying they have a fuel spill contained after an accident in a rail shipping yard in South Seattle. About a thousand gallons of diesel fuel was spilled. Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas says an engine was moving cars in a...

(WGN-AM)- The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Metra a $46 million grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--the so-called stimulus act--U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Friday. The money will be used for bridge...

(WGN-AM)- The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and the Chicago office of the FBI announced Wednesday that a reward of up to $7,500 is now being offered for information about those responsible for the bombing of a railway switching shed in Kane County...

Investigators are looking into what a man was doing on the train tracks in Sumner, right before he was hit and killed by a freight train. It happened around 1 a.m. Monday at the Thompson St. trestle. Officials say the victim was hit by a Burlington...

A slow-moving train knocked a woman into the water near Carkeek Park Tuesday. A spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe said the woman was hit by a Sound Transit commuter train that had slowed to about 8 mph after using the emergency brake. The...

Beginning today, investors will get a chance to buy shares of Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., for the lowest dollar price ever. That might have been incentive enough for some small investors. But Buffett may have primed the......

One of the hottest U.S. stocks this year belongs to a man who usually warns investors to avoid chasing hot stocks. On Monday, the Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s holding company, rose $1.78, or......