A coastal town of Viareggio in Italy saw one of the biggest train derailment in its history last night. A freight train derailed and the carriages exploded. Russian state TV says the train was passing at 90 KM/H, which is a speed two times higher than the regulations allow for these trains passing through stations.

Two confirmed dead, mass casualties expected.

President-elect Barack Obama and his family were joined by Vice-President-elect Joe Biden and his family in Wilmington, Delaware, on an historic Obama express train trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. for their inauguration on Tuesday. This is the final leg of Mr. Obama's nearly two-year journey to the White House.

Two trains collided this morning in Southeastern Minnesota and fell into the Mississippi River. The freight trains hit head on this morning around 5:30AM and sent at least 40 rail cars into the Mississippi River.

While the NTSB sought to determine if the engineer of a Metrolink commuter train was text messaging before a crash with a Union Pacific freight train, the head of the California Public Utilities Commission said he would seek an emergency ban of cell phone use by California train operators. 25 people were killed in the accident.

The San Francisco Bay Area's BART system (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is in talks with WiFi Rail, Inc., to provide system-wide wi-fi service after a successful trial program. Phase three of the demonstration program recently completed, and in a small blurb on WiFi Rail's home page, the company said:

At least 43 people were killed and 247 others injured in a pre-dawn collision between two passenger trains at Zibo city in east China's Shandong province on Monday.

India and Bangladesh have resumed passenger train service across their border after more than four decades. The services had been suspended following a war between India and Pakistan.

Overseas property investors or those seeking to move abroad will need to know how close their new homes are to communication networks. This simple requirement makes accessibility to a region one of the key features when buying property abroad. Now Italian property has improved a new high speed rail network is making this region the place to invest.

Five people have been killed and four others injured in an explosion on a railway track in Assam's Golaghat district, just as the Delhi bound Guwahati Rajdhani express was passing, in the early hours.

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad’s partnership continues with Warner Brothers Consumer Products for 2007. The Polar Express 2004 holiday film from Warner Bros. reunited the Academy Award-winning team of Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in an inspiring animated film based on the beloved children’s book, by Chris Van Allsburg, about a doubting young boy who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

Hitachi Europe Ltd unveils its Ashford Train Depot maintenance facility and six-car Class 395 'bullet train' unit for Southeastern High Speed Services, at an opening ceremony in the presence of the UK Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP and His Excellency Mr Yoshiji Nogami, Japanese Ambassador.