The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Oct. 23 and 24 published two successive, related Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) the agency says will enhance railroad track safety by requiring ...

Rail regulators accused of ignoring safety recommendations after shocking number of accidents - There have been 23 deaths and ...

Shortwave rail defects, often less than a meter long, can cause serious problems on high-speed railway networks. These local shortwave irregularities intensify vibrations between wheels, tracks, and ...

TrackEi enables real-time defect detection and predictive maintenance using NVIDIA Jetson edge AI. Credit: APChanel/Shutterstock. L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has announced the launch of TrackEi, an ...

In the hours and days after a Jan. 18 train derailment near Minot, N.D., two federal agencies and a team of Canadian Pacific engineers began picking apart scattered fragments of steel rail and mangled ...

The section of track in Minnesota where a train carrying ethanol derailed earlier this spring had a history of defects that led to employee complaints, million-dollar lawsuits, and federal safety ...

A CSX inspection of railroad track in Lynchburg found a defect in the rail the day before 17 tanker cars carrying highly volatile crude oil derailed in the city’s downtown on April 30, a state ...

ENSCO, Inc. has announced that it has delivered the TrackIT Track Chart Management System to Amtrak. The web-based system hosts Amtrak’s official track charts and provides them as high quality PDF ...