Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced that its FlexNet Quality application now includes visual Quality Defect Tracking (vQDT), which embeds visual imagery of ...

Deadly track defects In 1980, a train carrying vinyl chloride — the same cancer-causing chemical at the center of the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train disaster — derailed in Muldraugh, Kentucky, ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City is working with Google Public Sector to use the sensors in off-the-shelf smartphones, combined with AI, to find defects in its train ...

New bill requires railroads use both automated track inspections and visual track inspections to avoid derailments ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

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 ...

More than 3,000 rail accidents, causing 23 deaths and nearly 1,200 injuries over the past decade, have been attributed to human error and track defects. Yet, federal ...