On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

The pantograph-catenary interface is critical to the safe and efficient operation of electric railways. Defects such as wear on current collector strips, dropper slack or breakage, insulator cracks ...

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The freight train derailment in eastern Ohio involved a failing wheel bearing that overheated without initially triggering the alert threshold set for the railroad’s defect detectors, according to a ...

The February train derailment in East Palestine has raised questions about the safety of freight rail companies. Now, the U.S. Congress is considering two pieces of legislation that would address the ...

DES MOINES — Lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday that would require railroads to deploy train defect detectors along their branch lines in the state, amid concerns about increased train traffic in ...