Railroads

The intersection where the speeding train collided with a lumbering truck has drawn complaints for years. Now the widow of the dump truck driver killed in the Amtrak collision in Missouri is suing a railroad inspector and the county where the collision occurred.

St. Louis lost out to Chicago when tracks were first laid for the transcontinental railroad. Author Molly Butterworth explains why on "St. Louis on the Air."

Bird-watching and airplane spotting are classic observation-based hobbies. And then there’s train watching. Instead of keeping an eye out for something in…