@Amtrak @msnbc @NBCNews pray for these passengers. pic.twitter.com/mksZNy7eqo
— Patrick J. Murphy (@PatrickMurphyPA) May 13, 2015 " data-caption="null" data-credit="null">An Amtrak train has derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening. The train was traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York City on the evening of May 12 when it crashed. Up to eight cars is reported to have derailed.
Early reports state that several people have been injured.
On May 9, an Amtrak passenger train derailed after crashing into a tractor trailer truck in North Carolina, sending some 40 passengers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, state officials said.
The train, carrying more than 200 passengers, was traveling from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New York when it hit a truck that had been hauling heavy equipment and apparently got stuck on tracks in Halifax County near the Virginia border, said Heather Joyner, communications director of the county's Emergency 911.
The train's engine and baggage car derailed, but the 40 people transported to local hospitals escaped with minor injuries, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said in a statement.
-Reuters contributed to this report.
