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Union Station could receive $418 million facelift if federal grant approved

“This vision has been years and years in the making, and now we finally have a chance to make it a reality,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at Union Station on Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Unbreakable Bond of Stefon and Trevon Diggs

How did the Diggs brothers grow up to become the best of the NFL’s best? Just ask, they’ll tell you.

Sports Illustrated

Boy, 15, fatally struck by Amtrak train while biking in Glenview

An autopsy released Saturday ruled the death an accident.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Amtrak sues owner of truck hit in fatal Missouri derailment

Amtrak claims MS Contracting ‘negligently, carelessly and recklessly failed to properly train and supervise its employees’

The Independent UK

Lawsuits filed days after deadly Missouri Amtrak crash

The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others

The Independent UK

Amtrak, BNSF Railway blame Missouri dump truck company for deadly Mo. train crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Passenger rail provider Amtrak and BNSF Railway Company have filed a federal lawsuit blaming the contracting company that owns the dump truck the train collided with on Monday of causing the crash that killed four people, including the truck driver, near Mendon, Missouri.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Preventable Amtrak crashes are a national problem and also a serious issue for Chicago

Crashes involving Amtrak trains appear rare. But the reality, especially west of Chicago, is that Amtrak trains themselves are infrequent. They run just three or four times a day to most Midwestern destinations. The great long-distance trains that head out west from Chicago — they have names like the Empire…

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Missouri agency never contacted railroad to review crossing, site of deadly Amtrak crash

MENDON, Mo. — In March 2021, a small group of men met at a rural railroad crossing in northern Missouri that locals had long been complaining about because of its steep grade and lack of visibility.

Tribune News Service

Amtrak was going at 87mph before collision in Missouri, says investigators

NTSB chairwoman acknowledged issues with railway crossing

The Independent UK

Missouri Amtrak derailment victims identified as train found to be going 87mph

Sisters were waiting for restroom, say relatives

The Independent UK

Before Missouri Amtrak crash, county alerted state, railroad about brush blocking views

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One month before the deadly Amtrak train derailment at a crossing in northern Missouri, the county commission there alerted the state that overgrown brush was obstructing drivers’ views.

Tribune News Service

‘Everyone got tossed around’: Siblings recount surviving Missouri Amtrak train crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Samantha McDonald and her brother Dax were traveling with other family members from Arizona to Iowa when the Amtrak train they were on hit a dump truck, causing rail cars to tumble off the tracks and land on their side.

Tribune News Service

4 people killed in Monday’s Amtrak crash in rural Missouri identified by authorities

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The four people who were killed when an Amtrak train crashed into a dump truck Monday in rural mid-Missouri have been identified.

Tribune News Service

Boy Scout, 15, held dying truck driver’s hand after escaping derailed Amtrak train in Missouri

The Wisconsin teen said waiting for emergency crews felt like ‘a lifetime’

The Independent UK

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‘Oh, my God’: Witness describes seeing Amtrak crash from her porch

On Monday afternoon, Shannon Jacobs was sitting on the front porch of her home here with her daughter and 1-year old grandson when she noticed an Amtrak train coming by.

The Independent UK

NTSB investigators look into fatal Missouri Amtrak accident

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Missouri trying to determine how an Amtrak train carrying more than 200 people slammed into a dump truck, killing two train passengers and the truck driver

Tribune News Service

Crossing where deadly Amtrak crash unfolded was on a safety upgrade to-do list: report

The rural Missouri railroad crossing where an Amtrak train struck a dump truck before becoming derailed, an incident that killed three and injured dozens on Monday, is among several where potential safety hazards had already been identified in a recent statewide report.

The Independent UK

Farmer says deadly Amtrak derailment in Missouri ‘was going to happen’ after raising safety alarm

On Monday, three people were killed and 50 injured when an Amtrak train hit a dump truck at a railroad crossing

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The Independent UK

Amtrak derailment: Mother and aunt among four dead as Boy Scouts recall bloody scene in Missouri

The train was on its way to Chicago from Los Angeles when the accident occurred

Evening Standard

Missouri train derailment: Three killed and dozens injured in Amtrak train collision

Driver and two passengers lose lives in train derailment in Missouri

Dynamite News

US: Three killed, multiple injured in Amtrak train crash in Missouri

Three people are dead and at least 50 injured after an Amtrak train derailed after hitting a dump truck on Monday in Missouri, said Justin Dunn, Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Hero teacher on first ever Amtrak trip helps rescue passengers in Missouri derailment: ‘It was chaos’

‘Once it went over, it was one of those, you think, I can’t believe this is actually happening ... People were bleeding. People were banged up’

Los Angeles Times

3 killed and 50 injured when Amtrak train from Los Angeles to Chicago derails in Missouri

LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed and at least 50 others injured when an Amtrak train headed from Los Angeles to Chicago crashed into a dump truck Monday afternoon in Missouri, officials said.

France 24

Three killed, dozens injured in Amtrak train derailment in Missouri

A passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed Monday in a remote, rural area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more, officials said.

The Independent UK

A look at recent Amtrak derailments and other crashes

An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck Monday at an uncontrolled crossing in a rural area of Missouri killing two people on the train and one in the truck

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