At TRB, educators and rail executives urge a strategic rethinking of how the industry attracts new talent, upskills current ...

U.S. weekly rail traffic remained ahead of year-earlier levels for the final week of 2024, the Association of American ...

Total North American carload and intermodal traffic rose 2.3% through the first 51 weeks of 2024 compared with the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Dec. 27.

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SunTrain, a San Francisco company, is designing a method to transport power by rail, moving containerized batteries between ...

The Jan. 6, 2005, wreck released some 60 tons of chlorine, which formed a toxic cloud that moved over Graniteville, killing ...

This list contains 13 locomotives that have proved pivotal in the evolution of American railroads. They have made this list due to their advanced designs, power, and, in some cases, the speeds ...

Railroads were, however ... and in this sad position the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN and New York city propose to abandon the canal altogether. Better counsels prevailed, and the boot is being rapidly ...

MESSRS. EDITORS—In No. 32 of the present volume of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, you say in your article entitled "Canals and Railroads," that "the wisest policy to pursue, apparently, is to utilize ...