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, ...

Penn State Altoona rail trans­portation engineering professor Shihui Shen was conferred one of Penn State’s 10 dis­­­­ting­uished professors this year. Courtesy photo Penn State Altoona rail ...

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 ...

An engineering firm has bolstered its order book with a £28.5 million rail station deal. Spencer Rail Engineering has been ...

Railway track transition zones represent critical segments where structural and material properties change abruptly, such as at the interface between ballasted and ballastless (slab) tracks or near ...

Anyone who assumed constructing a 200-mph train span the state of California would be a no brainer clearly never attempted to lay track in the Central Valley. The most recent achievement finishing a ...

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 ...

Amorim Cork Solutions is reinventing materials innovation by combining vibration control and sustainable innovation for rail ...

Transforming one of Sweden’s busiest railway arteries—without pausing a single day of operation—was a challenge for the Fyrspåret Lund–Arlöv project team. Stretching 11 km between Lund and Arlöv, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Union Pacific Railroad ...

There’s going to be a fairly rare chance to ride a train over a little used part of the railway tracks in east London, thanks ...