Trains

Two freight trains have collided and derailed in Colorado, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel, and injuring two conductors. The Boulder Police Department says the crash happened north of Boulder Community Hospital. Area roads were closed for several hours while officials conducted an investigation and fuel cleanups but have all since reopened.

Authorities say the locomotive of a cargo train has derailed in northern Colorado, spilling hundreds of gallons of diesel. The Loveland Fire Rescue Authority says the Great Western Railway locomotive didn't tip over when it went off the rails early Wednesday at a switch in the tracks, but a fuel tank was punctured.

Authorities say an Amtrak worker was seriously injured and two other people suffered minor injuries when a passenger train derailed after it hit a tanker truck carrying milk in northeastern Colorado. Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Troy Kessler said Tuesday that the train worker, a 42-year-old man from Utah, suffered injuries in Monday night's crash that might be life-threatening.

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Federal officials say their investigation into a Colorado coal train derailment that killed a truck driver and shut down a major highway is focused on whether inspection and maintenance practices at BNSF Railway contributed to the accident.

Interstate 25 in southern Colorado is expected to reopen Thursday, four days after the main north-south route through the state was shut down when a train derailment collapsed a railroad bridge onto the highway and killed a truck driver.

The steel bridge built in 1958 collapsed Sunday when 30 cars from a BNSF train hauling coal derailed while crossing over Interstate 25 north of Pueblo. The 60-year-old driver of a semitrailer truck that was passing beneath the bridge was killed.

A former Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked vehicle that was hit by a freight train last year, causing the woman to suffer a traumatic brain injury, has avoided a jail sentence.

A U.S. Appeals Court has struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports.

Near the rail yards and industrial spurs on Denver's north side, predominantly low-income and Latino communities have long borne the burdens of heavy rail traffic, and a City Council member’s decade-long fight to more strictly regulate land use along railroad rights-of-way has taken on new urgency in the wake of the Uinta Basin Railway’s approval.