It might be a warm summer morning in the early 1950s on the Illinois Central near Clinton, Ill.; or maybe a cold January day along the Pere Marquette outside of Grand Rapids, Mich. There's the sound ...

Norfolk Southern has filed a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from certain provisions of federal railroad safety regulations regarding refresher ...

Hard-to-detect braking system defects have rendered Canada’s aging fleet of grain hoppers a safety hazard, says a former director of derailment investigations for the country’s Transportation Safety ...

BISMARCK — An ex-BNSF Railway worker claims he was fired because he blew the whistle on emergency brake failures for coal trains in North Dakota and testified that a co-worker was injured on the job ...

SEPTA showed members of Congress and the media its new automatic braking system — Positive Train Control. The safety system would most likely have prevented the fatal Amtrak crash at Frankford ...

At the 'Train Zero' lab in the United Kingdom, engineers test systems like signal and speed using simulation. View on ...