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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Behind more than 70 million high-speed rail services a year lies a web of safety systems. At nearly 200 mph, even a single failure can have dramatic consequences.

The engineer of a train that struck and killed three homeless men on the tracks in coastal Alabama says he never saw them and did not know he had hit them. The Alabama Port Authority tells WALA-TV ...

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 ...

Firefighters said a "citizen hero" helped save a driver whose vehicle became stuck on a railroad truck as a train approached in Springville on Sunday. | Springville Fire Department SPRINGVILLE — ...