News Death on the tracks: For Caltrain crews, trauma of suicides may never go away A Caltrain passes by a suicide prevention sign in Palo Alto on July 28, 2009.

A beefed-up Caltrain service and a slimmed-down high-speed rail system could run between San Francisco and San Jose by sharing the existing rails, plus just a few miles of new passing tracks ...

A train pulled into the Palo Alto Caltrain station. The 90 people killed along the Caltrain tracks in the past eight years include children, impatient drivers, joggers and suicides. Chronicle ...

Caltrain is also evaluating two other parts of Palo Alto for a four-track segment: the area around the downtown transit station and the area around California Avenue, the new plans show.

Michelle Bouchard, executive director of Caltrain, has been elected chair of the Commuter Rail Coalition’s board of directors ...

Caltrain, the commuter rail service that runs between Santa Clara County and San Francisco, doesn't lead the nation or even the state for suicides on its tracks, but the numbers are troubling enough.

There were more than 230 vehicle-track incursions in which a tow truck was required to get a vehicle off the tracks on Caltrain’s corridor between 2020 and April 23, according to Caltrain data ...

Caltrans is beginning overnight track work to improve rail grinding throughout the Bay Area. The work is expected to last until May 19th.

Feds want to know why Caltrain's emergency prevention system failed ahead of crash that injured 13 Officials want to know why equipment, including a crane, was on the tracks at the time of the ...

A driver has died after being struck by a passing train on the Caltrain tracks in Burlingame Thursday afternoon, the fourth fatality on the system in recent days.

The deaths on Thursday marked Caltrain’s third and fourth fatal collisions of 2023, the agency reported.

Caltrain is working on new methods of preventing vehicle crashes on its tracks in response to a sharp uptick this year, particularly in recent months, officials said Wednesday.