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 biggest freight trains on Earth are built for extreme distances and heavy cargo. Here are five record-setters and the ...
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 ...
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 ...