I was surprised there weren’t more passengers on the truck trailer car, because I had seen plenty of people around the freight yard. Maybe they were headed west instead of east, or perhaps north or ...

Kids are gonna be kids wherever they are. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: I remember there was this one kid who was putting plastic bottles on the train tracks just to see what happened to them. DETROW: This ...

Many migrants in Mexico journey north to the U.S. border by riding on top of freight trains. It's a dangerous trip: migrants have been kidnapped by cartels or killed by falling onto the tracks. And ...

Two US tourists were arrested on Thursday for stowing away on a freight train for the 1500-kilometre ride between the Australian cities of Alice Springs and Darwin. The pair were allowed to travel in ...

ELKO COUNTY, Nevada (KSTU) — A man died early Monday morning after an apparent train-hopping accident in eastern Nevada. The Elko County Sheriff’s Office said emergency dispatch received a call around ...

Enjoy a head end ride on board a train of tank cars on the Indiana Rail Road from Indianapolis to Switz City, Indiana. You'll cross the 900 foot-long Shuffle Creek Viaduct and the half mile long ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eyder Peralta transports us to Mexico for this week's Reporter's Notebook. For decades, ...

One morning, after surfing at Imperial Beach, my friends and I were hanging out and bragging about one thing or another. Someone shared a story they had heard about how easy it was to catch a freight ...

ELKO COUNTY, Nevada — One person died early Monday morning after falling off a freight train in eastern Nevada. The Elko County Sheriff's Office said emergency dispatch received a call around 4:35 a.m ...