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Officials say 142 passengers and crew onboard unharmed but driver of a vehicle taken to hospital

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A deadly derailment involving an Amtrak train and a dump truck last month in rural Missouri caused an estimated $4 million in damages, according to a preliminary report by the investigating agencies.

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“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.

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An autopsy released Saturday ruled the death an accident.

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

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

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.

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…