A conductor told investigators in Florida that he unsuccessfully tried to stop his train when he saw a couple hug and lay down on the tracks in an apparent suicide pact.
NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Crews are continuing efforts to get a derailed CSX freight train back on the tracks at a Hudson Valley railroad crossing where it collided with a forklift.
BYRON, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a 60-year-old western New York man who was struck and killed by a freight train may have been photographing deer along the tracks.
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — The Federal Railroad Administration is reviewing the safety of railroad crossings in the Hudson Valley after a 15-year-old boy was struck and killed by a freight train last week.
PAMELIA, N.Y. (AP) — A staff sergeant at Fort Drum has been identified as the person who was struck and killed by a train in northern New York over the weekend.