Anyone who has rode the New York City subway can tell you that it has a lot of problems, from strange noises to flammable debris on the tracks. Now, as is the solution for everything these days, the ...

In the latest in a recent series of rail safety bills, U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Wednesday, March 4, that they would introduce legislation requiring ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...