Tuesday night's Amtrak crash in Philadelphia that killed at least five was the latest in a series of deadly incidents on America's passenger trains.

The wreck came on the Northeast Corridor line, a stretch of track that has long been part of the busiest railroad in America but passes through cities that have seen a number of disasters.

The corridor carried a reported 11.6million passengers in the fiscal year 2014. 

But trains that serve major East Coast cities such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York City have also seen an increasing number of fatal crashes in recent years.

The Northeast Regional service includes trains operated by Metro North in New York and Connecticut, which that has seen deadly incidents in the past two years.

An Amtrak train on the same stretch as the Philadelphia train killed a young woman who had driven on to the tracks in Rhode Island on April 18, according to the Boston Herald. No one on the train was injured.

In February a mother from suburban Westchester, New York, stopped on Metro North tracks in Valhalla, New York, and caused a train crash that killed six and injured more than a dozen others.