SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy hospital ship, ...

A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found a way to stop concrete rail ties from cracking under heavy train traffic. Led by civil and environmental engineering professor ...

Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...

A Doncaster-based company that designs telecoms systems for the national rail network has secured a £150,000 loan to support its growth.

A railroad engineer was in the middle of his overnight shift when he spotted twin 9-month-old babies alone near the tracks in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police responded around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Several train tracks across the region were badly damaged after Helene’s rampage through the region. Norfolk Southern shared that their track in and out of Asheville is ...

SPRINGVILLE — Firefighters said a "citizen hero" helped save a driver whose vehicle became stuck on a railroad track as a train approached in Springville on Sunday. The Springville Fire Department ...

The engineer of a train that struck and killed three homeless men on the tracks in coastal Alabama says he never saw them and did not know he had hit them. The Alabama Port Authority tells WALA-TV ...

The 1.6-mile Northwest Phase II Extension brings the transit system to the West Valley for the first time and is expected to add about 1,400 new daily riders. The new line (map, above) connects to an ...

Plainville, Ind. Never was a town more aptly named. It was on state Highway 57 and had nearly 500 souls in 1955. It had Charles England’s Machine Shop and was home to my grandfather Frank Morgan’s ...