PayPal Exec Killed on Train Tracks
Eric Salvatierra, a 39-year-old PayPal executive, was killed on Caltrain tracks in California Friday morning. The married father of three was struck on the northbound tracks, and his death remains...
View Article'Hero' Ex-Con Saves Guy From Train
Most days, recovering drug addict and ex-con Christopher Knafelc has plenty to regret. But not Thursday, when he didn't hesitate to save the life of a perfect stranger. As the AP reports, Knafelc was...
View ArticleWoman Thinks She Sleepwalked Onto Train Tracks
A woman who walked straight off the platform and onto the tracks at a Boston T station yesterday may have been sleepwalking, CBS Boston reports. The 31-year-old woman can be seen on surveillance video...
View ArticleTeen Saves Man Stuck on Tracks Just in Time
Ashley Aldridge was at home in Auburn, Illinois, last week when she heard a man screaming. The 19-year-old ran outside to the railroad tracks near her house, heard a train blaring its horn, and saw...
View ArticleMoments After Photo Was Taken, Aspiring Model Was Dead
It was Fredzania Thompson's dream to pursue a career in modeling, so much so that her family says she decided to pause her college studies and go after it. "It's what she had started to do the day she...
View ArticleStranger Pushes Woman, Son Off Platform Into Train's Path
A man standing among passengers at a train station in Germany on Monday pushed a woman and her 8-year-old son onto the tracks, in the path of a high-speed train. The boy was hit and killed instantly;...
View ArticleTrain Derails Near Site of LA Cargo Thefts
Update : Crews made railroad repairs in Los Angeles on Monday after a train derailed near the location where thieves have been raiding cargo containers, leaving the tracks littered with emptied boxes...
View ArticlePoles Fixing Century-Old Railroad Tracks to Help Rescue Refugees
Poland is receiving praise the world over for embracing refugees fleeing Ukraine as Russian forces continue their assault . Now, Poles are supplementing this "tidal wave of support" for their desperate...
View ArticleDaring Rescue Rewarded: 'We Need More Anthonys in the World'
A Chicago man who jumped onto train tracks to rescue someone who'd fallen onto an electrified rail at an L station earned more than praise for his heroic act: He's also been given a car. Anthony Perry,...
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