A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying flammable liquid propane into the water, though officials say they don't appear to be leaking.
"I make $14 an hour. Where am I supposed to go?" said Audrey DeSanzo, who lives about half a mile from the derailment with her two grade-school-age children. "I don't want to be here now with my kids."
Amtrak is investing after four auto-carrying rail cars on an Auto Train 53 derailed Wednesday night.
Train cars from an Amtrak train can be seen hanging off an overpass after a fatal train derailment in Washington state.
A CSX train derailed near the East Carolina University campus, leading to leakage of a chemical for fertilizer.