The first step in building a freight train is an understanding of what railroaders mean by "compliance." A freight train is said to be "in compliance" when it's assembled properly and is operating ...

The driver of a Dodge Challenger Hellcat found out the hard way what happens when a 700‑plus horsepower muscle car meets a ...

In 2021, the U.S. Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Transportation Research Board (TRB) ...

The Biden administration wants to bring about a new age of train travel. But tension between Amtrak and the freight industry threaten to derail those ambitions. Even when everything goes right, Amtrak ...

The West is wild again. A train robber gang is terrorizing rail lines across the deserts of California and Arizona with a rash of heists that have netted the hop-along gang nearly $2 million in pricey ...

A BNSF freight train in Barrio Logan. (File 9hoto by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) If California’s politically influential labor unions get their way, the state’s freight trains would get ...

The Federal Railroad Administration has issued Safety Advisory 2023-02 “to emphasize significant concerns related to train makeup and to ensure that all railroads exercise due diligence and recognize ...

One morning, after surfing at Imperial Beach, my friends and I were hanging out and bragging about one thing or another. Someone shared a story they had heard about how easy it was to catch a freight ...

A freight train crashed into a cement truck Thursday morning, leaving a commuter mess along a SEPTA Regional Rail line in Bucks County. The wreck happened along the tracks near the railroad crossing ...