The analysis revealed a recurring cycle of industry opposition, FRA inaction, congressional capitulation and tragedy.

Anyone who has rode the New York City subway can tell you that it has a lot of problems, from strange noises to flammable debris on the tracks. Now, as is the solution for everything these days, the ...

THIS LATEST SHAKEUP TO THE RIDE, BRIANNA ANTOINETTE. THAT’S RIGHT. I MEAN, THIS WAS A MORE THAN $2 BILLION PROJECT AND NOW WE’VE LEARNED THAT THE MTA KNEW ABOUT THESE TRACK ISSUES DURING CONSTRUCTION ...

The MBTA completed a systemwide track inspection, a preliminary step needed to begin lifting the plethora of speed restrictions that plague each subway line. This inspection and validation process ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City is working with Google Public Sector to use the sensors in off-the-shelf smartphones, combined with AI, to find defects in its train ...

New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) Railways keymen, who walk 8 km everyday inspecting every crack and every nut and bolt to detect defects on tracks and ensure their repair in time for trains to pass, have ...

Shortwave rail defects, often less than a meter long, can cause serious problems on high-speed railway networks. These local shortwave irregularities intensify vibrations between wheels, tracks, and ...

In the hours and days after a Jan. 18 train derailment near Minot, N.D., two federal agencies and a team of Canadian Pacific engineers began picking apart scattered fragments of steel rail and mangled ...