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Rescuers and others stand after two passenger trains collided in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Oct.29, 2023. AP hide caption

People watch at the site where trains that derailed, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption

The Los Angeles skyline is seen above the Union Pacific LATC Intermodal Terminal on Tuesday. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption

Two badger cubs are seen in the Szeged Game Park in Szeged, south of Budapest, Hungary, on April 12, 2006. Badgers burrowing under rail tracks have halted trains in the Netherlands, forcing lengthy cancellations on at least two lines. Gyoergy Nemeth/MTI via AP, File hide caption

Oksana Shevliuha, 51, wears a Ukrainian flag as she greets her daughter, Anastasia, who arrived on the first train to reach liberated Kherson on Saturday. They had not seen each other for six months. The first Ukrainian Railways train arrived in Kherson following a Russian occupation that lasted more than eight months. Carol Guzy for NPR hide caption

Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard in Chicago Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

Emergency medical personnel walk by a high-speed TGV train in Strasbourg station on Wednesday, preparing to evacuate 20 COVID-19 patients to hospitals in western France. Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Passengers disembark from a train in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

A Shinkansen bullet train arrives at Tokyo Station in Tokyo in 2014. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP hide caption

Cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below and alongside smashed vehicles as some train cars remain on the tracks above on Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

The $3 billion Brightline express train project will launch this month with trains operating from West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale. Courtesy of Brightline hide caption

A Japanese train company says it has spoken to a crew that left a station without consulting the time. JTB Photo/UIG via Getty Images hide caption

A Fuxing bullet train, China's latest high-speed train, arrives at a train station in northern China's Tianjin municipality. Yang Baosen/AP hide caption

The Japanese luxury Train Suite Shiki-Shima will carry a maximum of 34 passengers. Tickets cost between nearly $3,000 and almost $10,000. East Japan Railway Co. hide caption

The train, which began its journey in Yiwu, China, pulls into a rail freight terminal on Wednesday in London, after traveling for 16 days — across about 7,456 miles and nine countries. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

Train journeys in India were once defined by food, brought by passengers from their homes and purchased from vendors like this one. Passengers shared food with each other, exchanging stories and family histories, and sometimes striking new friendships that continued beyond the journey. But with growing availability of packaged food on trains, that culture is slowly dying. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

This aerial handout photo shows what is left of two commuter trains after their head-on collision in southern Italy on Tuesday. Italian Firefighter Press Office/AP hide caption