OMAHA, Neb. — The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to dramatically increase the number of people who know how to spot critical problems with railroad bridges, but the ...

The single most important asset to the railroad industry is its rail infrastructure. The lesson of last Friday's collision is that undetected rail defects and resultant train derailment cause ...

The researchers, along with partners from industry and government railroad organizations, applied an advanced form of ultrasound featuring new beamforming algorithms to develop a ...

With only one federal railroad inspector for all 919 train bridges in Pennsylvania, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) wants more inspectors on railroad bridges carrying trains loaded with potentially ...

BUFFALO — Rich McCumber drives a truck onto a rail crossing and lowers the small steel wheels onto the rails. Then it's off down the track at about 20 miles per hour, his eyes straight ahead as he ...

BISMARCK - A committee of House and Senate lawmakers agreed Friday to insert money back into a new state-run railroad safety program that was cut from the North Dakota Public Service Commission's ...

BISMARCK – North Dakota has almost singlehandedly driven massive crude-by-rail growth across the nation, but the state doesn’t employ its own inspectors to ensure the trains and tank cars leaving the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In wake of the train derailment in western Minnesota, state lawmakers are considering new rules to make sure all emergency responders are prepared to respond if there is a similar ...