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The director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on Wednesday addressed a troubling incident in which video ...

The trackway where an Amtrak Cascades train derailed Sunday afternoon contains a special switch that’s designed to nudge a train off-course as a last resort so it won’t collide with the bridge just ...

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