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, ...

Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...

Credit: Courtesy There is a Shortline Train in Goleta where kids and their parents can ride the train. It has been in ...

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 ...

UD’s $14.5 million federal grant will expand access to live rail training and create a shared data resource Most aspiring rail engineers learn in classrooms, far removed from the massive machines they ...

Network Rail is warning passengers of upcoming disruption as rail replacement work at Swindon Station, Rotherham, begins.

The A Line light-rail just keeps on rolling. On Thursday, Jan. 29, the longest all-electric, light-rail line in the nation was approved for yet another extension, a short, 2.3-mile addition from ...